The Imam and the Indian : prose pieces / by Amitav Ghosh.

By:

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

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TextPublication details: Delhi : Ravi Dayal : Orient Longman, c2002.Description: xvi, 361 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780143068730

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Summary: The Iman and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh's non-fiction writings. In this collection of prose pieces, his subjects are varied - from the academic as the role played by envy in the social life of an Egyptian village, to his personal reflections on his uncle's books, to fundamentalism to 9/11. He also has a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Khshudita Pashan (The Hungry Stones), an inquiry into novelist Bankimchandra Chatterjee and an amusing account of the works of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		910.4 GHO					Available			30008378
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		910.4 GHO				2	Available			30012386

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The Iman and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh's non-fiction writings. In this collection of prose pieces, his subjects are varied - from the academic as the role played by envy in the social life of an Egyptian village, to his personal reflections on his uncle's books, to fundamentalism to 9/11. He also has a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Khshudita Pashan (The Hungry Stones), an inquiry into novelist Bankimchandra Chatterjee and an amusing account of the works of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.