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reviewed the trilogy positively, saying " marshals the language of tiny details, from naval and military terminology to food and clothes and interiors, from boudoir to battlefield, in order to bolster our sense of how enormous and wide-ranging were the effects of this period of history, and of the
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in the trilogy. He suggests "one weakness of Ghosh’s first installment in the Ibis Trilogy is his failure to read Victorian primary sources with a sufficiently critical eye," but that he "remains a historiographical torchbearer who over much of his career has explored the past connections and
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Although he said the trilogy was completed, Ghosh suggested in 2015 that "at some point, I may return to these characters. I don’t feel I have parted from the characters yet." In March 2019, it was announced that a television series based on the books would be directed by
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during the 1830s, which was causing widespread addiction in the country, but was a lucrative endeavour for British and American merchants. After diplomatic attempts to end it failed, in 1839, Chinese Commissioner
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five out of five stars, saying "few writers have combined popular and literary styles in a Hong Kong-set book better than Amitav Ghosh", and commended the series for its narrative, humour and exploration of
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to fiction writing. It took Ghosh 10 years to complete the series and he conducted enough research during the writing process to publish several academic texts on Indian Ocean naval history.
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and been proposed as blurring the line between historical fact and fiction. Ghosh uses the trade of opium as a narrative device to explore the history and legacy of the
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unforgiving, brutalising opium trade in particular, how greatly it shaped international relations, communities and patterns of migration." In
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region, the trilogy has been suggested as proposing the region an alternative space for discussing colonial history, as a region with
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in Ghosh’s skilled hands — there are few storytellers alive today in the English language as gifted as Amitav Ghosh." She said that
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in the trade and subsequent conflict, an area that had attracted little prior popular or academic attention. At the time, India was
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was the strongest entry, whereas the other two could sometimes be "weighed down at times by the research that went into them".
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region, but found numerous links to the opium trade through researching this. He said in 2008 that he was inspired to begin
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The series' themes stem from the asymmetrical relations that arose through the opium wars, including abundance and
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includes a "Chrestomathy" which describes the meanings and origins of several words that appear throughout.
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narrative, touching on the transformation and use of natural resources for economic means, as well as
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descent. In addition to their native tongues, the novels also introduce the readers to various
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Land, River, Sea: The Articulated Space of the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy
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as a response to what he viewed as the "historical amnesia about war and empire" of the
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and its impact across the Indian Ocean region, including leading to the foundation of
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Ghosh manipulates and uses different languages in the series to touch on themes of
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Ghosh has described water as a key theme of the series. He said in 2015: "I’m from
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Guilhamon, Lise (2018). "The confluences of history and fiction in Amitav Ghosh's
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The novels depict a range of characters from different cultures, ethnicities,
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convergences of the Indian Ocean world well ahead of the academic curve."
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A Sense of History: The Poetics of Opium in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy
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was announced as the writer of the series. In 2023, Ghosh published
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in the port of Canton. The British Navy retaliated, triggering the
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Depiction of British opium ships off the coast of China in 1824 by
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was very much an Indian war — finances, transport vessels, Indian
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era and describe people's everyday experiences of the
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based on his research from the writing of the series.
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The trilogy was for the most part well received. In
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It particularly focuses on the trade of 16:Work of historical fiction by Amitav Ghosh 2144:Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma 1615: 1421: 1236:"'Opium financed British rule in India'" 873:and produced by Artists Studio, part of 922: 437:trilogy is set to the backdrop of the 20: 1551:Cowaloosur, Vedita (2 January 2015). 1449:Beretta, Carlotta (28 October 2021). 1444: 1442: 1440: 1389: 1387: 1385: 1383: 1335: 1333: 1331: 1329: 1301: 1299: 1258:"Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies" 1230: 1228: 1125: 1123: 1063: 1061: 1034: 1032: 1030: 1028: 825: 773: 7: 1728:"DSC Prize 2013 shortlist announced" 1476:Shlachter, Zack (6 September 2011). 1201: 1199: 1197: 1195: 1166: 1164: 1162: 1160: 1096: 1094: 994: 992: 990: 963: 961: 959: 932: 930: 928: 926: 785:DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 248:The trilogy gets its names from the 2227:Indian historical novels in English 1394:Anderson, Clare (5 December 2016). 446:ordered a ban on the trade and the 1726:Nair, Supriya (21 November 2012). 1686:Frost, Mark R. 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