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Amitav Ghosh

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Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer best known for his work in English fiction. [1]

60 relations: Ananda Puraskar, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bengali Hindus, Booker Prize, British Indian Army, Centre for Development Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Commonwealth Foundation prizes, Comparative literature, Crossword Book Award, Culture of Egypt, Dan David Prize, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, Deborah Baker, Debut novel, Delhi School of Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, Encyclopædia Britannica, English studies, Fellow, First Opium War, Flood of Fire, Fundamentalism, Government of India, Guernica (magazine), Harvard University, Ibis trilogy, In an Antique Land, Kolkata, Laura Riding, Lieutenant colonel, Little, Brown and Company, Man Asian Literary Prize, Margaret Atwood, Padma Shri, Prix Médicis, Professor, Queens College, City University of New York, Ramachandra Guha, River of Smoke, Royal Society of Literature, Sahitya Akademi Award, Sea of Poppies, Social anthropology, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Circle of Reason (novel), The Doon School, The Doon School Weekly, ..., The Glass Palace, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Hungry Tide, The Imam and the Indian, The Indian Express, The Shadow Lines, University of Delhi, University of Oxford, Vikram Seth, West Bengal. Expand index (10 more) »

Ananda Puraskar

The Ananda Puraskar (আনন্দ পুরস্কার Anondo Puroshkar) (literally Ananda Award) is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India.

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

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Bengali Hindus

Bengali Hindus (বাঙালি হিন্দু) are ethnic Bengali adherents of Hinduism, and are native to the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army (IA), often known since 1947 (but rarely during its existence) as the British Indian Army to distinguish it from the current Indian Army, was the principal military of the British Indian Empire before its decommissioning in 1947.

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Centre for Development Studies

The Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, Kerala, India is a premier social science research institution.

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Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is a social science and humanities research and teaching institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Comparative literature

Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries.

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Crossword Book Award

The Crossword Book Award (in full: Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2008–10), Economist Crossword Book Award (2011–13), Raymond & Crossword Book Award (2014–present)) at Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Culture of Egypt

The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history.

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Dan David Prize

The Dan David Prize grants annually three prizes of US$1 million each for outstanding achievement.

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Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma

Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma is a collection of essays by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Delhi School of Economics

Delhi School of Economics, commonly referred to as DSE or D School, is a centre of post graduate learning of the University of Delhi.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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English studies

English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which is a distinct discipline.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War (第一次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China.

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Flood of Fire

Flood of Fire is a 2015 novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.

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Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Guernica (magazine)

Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is an online site that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic policy.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Ibis trilogy

The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Amitav Ghosh.

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In an Antique Land

In An Antique Land is an ethnography written in narrative form by the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Laura Riding

Laura Riding Jackson (January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Man Asian Literary Prize

The Man, Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Padma Shri

Padma Shri (also Padma Shree) is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College (QC) is one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history.

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River of Smoke

River of Smoke (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Sahitya Akademi Award

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages (24 languages, including the 22 listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, along with English and Rajasthani) recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

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Sea of Poppies

Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

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Social anthropology

Social anthropology or anthroposociology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe (France in particular), where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology.

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St Edmund Hall, Oxford

St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or affectionately as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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St. Stephen's College, Delhi

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The Calcutta Chromosome

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English-language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh.

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The Circle of Reason (novel)

The Circle of Reason is the first novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The Doon School

The Doon School (informally Doon) is a boys-only independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

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The Doon School Weekly

The Doon School Weekly is a student newspaper produced by and for students of The Doon School.

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The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

The Great Derangement is a non-fiction book addressing climate change by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh published in 2016.

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The Hungry Tide

The Hungry Tide (2004) is the sixth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh.

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The Imam and the Indian

The Imam and the Indian is a collection of essays by the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper.

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The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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University of Delhi

The University of Delhi, informally known as Delhi University (DU), is a collegiate public central university, located in New Delhi, India.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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