Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome: An Overview

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh is a prolific Indian English writer in English who has produced a continual form of historical novels. His design of catastrophe can move one to tears and his representation of multiplying social ills can arouse one’s anger to the point of revolt. He links stories and facts so efficiently that it marks a profound imprint on his reader. His novels are not simply telling stories, but it is a kind of discourse on various social, historical, issues and events. He has globalized the theories of colonial discourse while the practice of a good deal of post-colonial criticism. He turned to the past as much to trace the deepening mod of nationalism as to cherish the memories of bygone days. He represents a radically new phase in the development of Indian Writing in English. He cheerfully bears numerous mantles of responsibility in the world of the bookcase anthropologist, sociologist, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and teacher. Through his imaginative power of re-assessment in fiction, Ghosh provides an essential energizing footnote to the documentation of South Asian history. He has a huge talent for innovation and experimentation, which he practices in his fictional and non-fictional works. The basic attraction of his novels is the ideas, which run through them. The present paper aims to highlight Amitav Ghosh’s thought-provoking hard work that encourages and questions metaphysical milieu and that also encompasses all the narrative levels of his writing.