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Reading Amitav Ghosh: Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace

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In both the books, The Glass Palace and The Shadow Lines written by the phenomenal writer Amitav Ghosh, one can examine the truths of individuals in history more completely in fiction than one can through mere knowledge of historical facts. While the Shadow Lines is set up against the backdrop of historical events like Swadeshi movement, Second World War, Partition of India and Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta, The Glass Palace is set in Burma, India, and Malay, spanning through a ...

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