Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Sea of Poppies

(2008)

Amitav Ghosh

(July 11, 1956 – )

Notes

First published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers) in 2008.

5  chudaliya, dainiya: 

5  nukha: 

235  Madame Commerson:

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Review Sheet

Characters

Benjamin Brightwell Burnham – (11)

Chandan Singh – Hukam Singh's younger brother (5);

Deeti – 

Hukam Singh – Deeti's husband (3); "wounded in the leg while serving as a sepoy in a British regiment" (4); a Rajput (4); works in an opium factory in Ghazipur (3)

Kabutri – Deeti's daughter (4);

Kalua – drives Hukam Singh to and from work in his ox-cart (4); "a giant of a man...leather-workers' caste" (4);

Zachary Reid – 20 years old (10);

Sarju – midwife (412)

Places 

India

Bihar – 

Calcutta – (11)

the Ibis – (9)

the Kala-Pani – "the Black Water" (3)

Time 

1838 – 

March – "the second week of March 1838...when the Ibis dropped anchor off Ganga-Sagar Island" (9); 

Sample Student Responses to Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

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Reference

Reference

Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies. London: John Murray, 2008. Print.

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