The Imam & the Indian

The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh’s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels in magazines journals academic books and periodicals these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present events and memories people cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist to present a collection like no other. About the Author Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh Sri Lanka Iran Egypt India and the United Kingdom where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction travel writing and journalism his books include The Circle of Reason The Shadow Lines In an Antique Land and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous novel The Glass Palace was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. Recently published there The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University where he is a visiting professor and his homes in India and Brooklyn New York.