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Indian Writings in Literature

Notes 3.5 Key-Words

1. Assassination : A person who seeks to promote human walfare.
2. Humanitarian : An attack intended to ruin someone’s reputation.

3.6 Review Questions
1. Discuss the plot of the Shadow Lines.
2. What is dialogue?
3. What do you mean by settings? Discuss
4. Discuss the Shadow Lines as critique.
Answers: Self-Assessment

1. (i)(c) (ii)(c) (iii)(b) (iv)(a)

3.7 Further Readings

1. Bagchi, Nivedita. “The Process of Validation in Relation to Materiality and
Historical Reconstruction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.” Modern Fiction
Studies 39:1 (Spring 1993). pp. 187-202.
2. Bose, Brinda. (ed.) 2003. Amitav Ghosh : Critical Perspectives. Delhi: Pencraft Couto,
M. 1988. ‘Threads and Shards,’ (review of The Shadow Lines), Times Literary
Supplement, 28 October –3 November 1988, 1212.
3. Dhawan, R.K. (ed.). 1999. The Novels of Amitav Ghosh, New Delhi: Prestige Books.
James, Louis and Jan Shepherd. “Shadow Lines: Cross Cultural Perspectives in
the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies (Dijon, France)
14:1 (Autumn, 1991): pp. 28-32.
4. The Oxford UP (India) – Delhi: Oxford UP, 1995 – edition contains 4 articles:
Kaul, AN. “A Reading of The Shadow Lines.” pp. 299-309.
5. Kaul, Suvir. “Separation Anxiety: Growing up Inter/National in The Shadow lines.”
pp. 268-286.
6. Roy, A. 2000. ‘Microstoria: Indian Nationalism’s “Little Stories” in Amitav
Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines,’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 35:2 (2000),
pp. 35-49.
7. Sundar Rajan, Rajeswari. “The Division of Experience in The Shadow Lines.”
pp. 287-298.
8. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. “Maps and Mirrors: Coordinates of Meaning in The
Shadow Lines.” pp. 255-267.
9. In Viney Kirpal, ed. The New Indian Novel in English: A Study of the 1980’s (New
Delhi: Allied Publishers Ltd.

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