AMITAV GHOSH : THE QUINTESSENTIAL POSTCOLONIAL WRITER Amitav Ghosh is a postcolonial writer in all the sense of the word, he attempts to subvert the existing history by bringing out the alternate and hitherto less known historical events and facts in his novels. History is easily interwoven into the narrative framework Ghosh’s fiction and he attempts a comparative study of Asian and African, Indian and Egyptian, Jewish and Islamic cultures over the course of his novels. Ghosh’s novels are postcolonial thematically as well as in terms of technique. He breaks the traditional time and place unities. There are no barriers of time and space in his fiction, the multiplicity adds to the appeal and understanding of the non-popular history. He does in depth researches about even the minute of details to recreate that moment of history in all its vividness. Ghosh uses time to maximum effect because past, present and future coalesce into one, which is one of the major conditions of the...