INDIA STUDIES PROGRAM
Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh
Amitav
A
Lecture
A Lecture
From Bombay to Canton: Traveling the
From Bombay
Canton:
Indian
Opium
Route toto19th
Century
China
Merchants in 19th Century China
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00 pm
Thursday, April 10, 2014
7:00 pm
At the Asia Society Texas Center
followed by Q&A with Chitra Divakaruni
1370 Southmore Blvd
Houston, Texas, 77004
Architecture
Free and Open to the Public
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amitav-ghosh-bombay-canton
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Asia Society Texas Center
Guangzhou
(alsowas
known
as Canton)
is one of and
the world’s
entrepots.
the 18th and
19th centuries,
Mr. Ghosh
born
in Calcutta
grewgreat
up cosmopolitan
in Bangladesh,
SriInLanka,
andearly
India,
and it
was
through
this
city
and
its
environs
that
opium
was
funneled
into
China
by
British,
American
and
Indian
merchants.
This
currently divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn. He is the prize winning author
trade was to have an enormous impact, not just on China but the whole world. Its influence on India was especially significant,
offorseveral
novels, including The Glass Palace, In an Antique Land, and Shadowlines. Sea of
the subcontinent was the world’s leading opium-producing region under the British Raj. One of India’s most important
Poppies
is the
first
novel
in theGuangzhou
“Ibis Trilogy,"
"
and
River
Smoke
second.
His
deals
novelists,
Amitav
Ghosh,
explores
as an Indian
trader
mightofhave
seen itisinthe
the 19th
century,
andlecture
as this amazing
with
the
subject
of
the
Ibis
Trilogy,
the
opium
trade
between
India
and
China
under
the
cultural crossroads is portrayed in his “Ibis Trilogy.” The first two novels of this trilogy, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, have
been published, and Mr. Ghosh is working on the third.
British Raj.