Abraham, 123 Advaita, xviii, 10 Alavi, Seema, 54 Aldama, Frederick, 205 Ali, Monica, 35 Alienation: discursive, 124; of humans from nature, 125, 128; of humans from one another, 122; middle class, 206; from surroundings, 127; through cultural power of colonialism, 38 Almond, Ian, 93 Alterity: defying assimilation, 112; ethical , xxvii; The Other as, 111, 112; pure, 112 Ananda Puraskar Award, xvi Anderson, Benedict, xxvi, 79; as champion of fraternity enjoyed by citizens, 85; comradeship in states and, 80, 81; criticisms of, 82, 83; defining nation, 85, 92; on elites’ contributions to nationalism, 84; elitist views, 83; emphasis on literacy, 83; failure to account for alienating time in imagined community, 82; on freedom, 80; on importance of newspapers in community , 90; on nationalism, 79, 80, 82; on sense of communtiy, 90 Anomie, 82 Artaud, Antonin, 162 Arthur C. Clarke Award, xvii, 109, 191 Ashcroft, Bill, 156 Asimov, Isaac, 202n7 “At Large in Burma” (Ghosh), 39 Atwood, Margaret, xiii, 192 Augé, Marc, 100 Aung San Suu Kyi, 36 Authority: imperial, 50, 70; Western, 23 Awards: Ananda Puraskar Award, xvi; Arthur C. Clarke Award, xvii, 109, 191; Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, xviii, 3, 4, 134; Dan David Prize, xiii; Grinzane Cavour Prize, xiii; Hutch Crossword Book Award, xix; International Frankfurt eBook Award, xix; Man Booker Prize shortlist, xiii; Padmashree Award, xiii; Prix Medici Estranger Award, xv; Sahitya Academy Award, xvi; Vodafone Crosswork Book Award, xiii Awareness: cultural, 103; of making one’s place in world, 2 Bangladesh, xiv, xix; establishment of, xv; fictional travels across, 98; refugees in, 24 Barbarism, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 188n1 Barthes, Roland, 194, 202n6 Basu, Chitralekha, 135 Beeharry, Deepchand, 43 223 Index Belliapa, K.C., 183, 187 Benjamin, Walter, 81, 173, 174, 178, 179, 187 Ben Yiju, Abraham, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182 Bhabha, Homi, 3, 81, 82, 83, 84, 89, 99, 100, 174 Bhautoo-Dewnarain, Nandini, xxv, 33–44 Binyon, Michael, xxi Borders: arbitrary, 87, 96, 99; containment of language, culture, social groups, 99; forming bonds across, 148; imposed by political strategies, 96; invisibility of, 86; lack of, 153; looking-glass, 89; as optical illusions, 87; sense of fellowship within, 79; stories flowing across, 106; tenuousness of, 87 Bose, Brinda, 98 Bose, Jagadhish, xviii, 10 Bose, Subhash Chandra, xxxin10, 5, 35 Boundaries. See also Borders: antagonistic , xvi; blurring, xxviii; circumscribing , 34; colonial, 98; connections across, 92; crossing, 96; cultural, 179, 180, 184; between cultures, 176; ethnography/travel writing, 171; fictional , 34; forming bonds across, 148; hatred of those living outside, 92; imposed by nationalist discourse, 92; of interaction between castes, 74; land control and management issues, 23, 24; living beyond, 152; national, xvi, xxvi, 23, 96; official, 96; overcoming artificial, 98; between past and present , 178; porosity of, 179, 180; relevance of, xxvi; between religion and ethnicity, 183; religious, 184; “shadow lines” and, xvi; shifting, 51; stepping out of, 51; transcending, 34, 35 Braudy, Leo, xx, xxxin12 Britain: abolition of slavery and, 35, 66; arrogance of in India, 198; assumption of right to rule India, 198; enclosure movement in, 24; fictional travels across, 98; invasion of Burma by, xviii; questioning loyalty to, 38 British Empire: abolishment of slavery in, 35, 66; accumulation of capital and, 50; colonial legacy of two sets of laws, 209; diasporic Indian communities in, 66; goodness defined in relation to, 54; omnipotent hands of, 50; sepoys in, 54; superior firepower of, 50 British Indian army: conflicted situation of Indians in, 37, 38; double subjectification of membership in, 38; fighting for Britain in Malaya and Burma, 61, 62 Burma, xviii, 50; British rule in, 36, 42, 50; deposition of monarchy, xix, 35, 50; fictional travels across, 98; Indian migration to, 42; Indo-Burmese middle class in, 43; invasion of, xviii; occupation of, 4; presence of Indian soldiers fighting for British in, 50; struggle for independence, 36; use of Indian labor for infrastructure development , 36, 42 Caitanya, 75 The Calcutta Chromosome (Ghosh): aesthetics and, 11; as alternative historical narrative, 191; anti-science cult subplot in, xviii; colonial/postcolonial dilemmas in, xvii; complex, multilayered narrative of, 194; conceptions of self in, 111; counter-science working with conventional Western science in, 199; critique of British arrogance in, 198; cultural politics in, 213; description , 109–110; destabilization of cognizant Self in, 110; effect of time in, 17, 18; ethics in, 109–118; examination of marginalization in, xxvi, xxvii; gender politics in, 213; hybridized science and, 8, 10; indigenous knowledge in, 27, 28; individual connection 224 INDEX [54.160.244.62] Project MUSE (2024-03-19...