epic style, 19, 52, 108, 144–145, 152, 163, 167, 227–229, 236–241, 248

Erasmus, 49

exotic views of India, 2, 191, 196

family, 33–34, 94–133, 137–157, 179–199, 253, 257–259

Fenwick, Mac, 137–138, 141, 151

Fields-Meyer, Thomas, 134

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 123, 208

fold, the, 16–21, 40–51, 56–58, 71–73, 84, 88–91, 108, 127, 133–134, 140–157, 165, 168, 176, 202–206, 217

Ford, Ford Madox, 221

Foucault, Michel, 128, 133, 135, 202, 240, 248, 250–251

Fowles, John, 177

fractals, 42–44, 140, 165, 168–169, 217, 256

Freud, Sigmund, 91

Fuentes, Carlos, 46, 239

Gandhi, Indira, 97, 103, 245

Gandhi, Mohandas K., 5, 11–14, 52, 96, 101, 106, 160–161, 179, 233, 240, 245

Ghosh, Amitav, 205, 221, 224, 247

In an Antique Land,, 14

The Calcutta Chromosome,, 107–108, 217–226, 239

The Circle of Reason,, 10–11, 60, 64, 152, 205, 220

The Shadow Lines,, 107, 225, 247

Ghosh, Bishnupriya, 218, 220, 224, 226

Gibbon, Edward, 47, 144, 146

Gilroy, Paul, 238

globalised mass media, 15, 61, 113, 118, 125–126

crime, 184

culture, 16, 22, 42, 119, 180, 218, 225, 255

history, 166, 182, 192

labour, 59, 64, 183

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 26–27, 58

Gokhale, Namita, 84–91

gothic, 47–48, 64, 67, 83, 90, 95, 108, 133, 140, 217, 220

gunas, 40

Gupta, Babli, 222

Hardy, Thomas, 51

Harrex, Syd, 23

Harris, Wilson, 37, 44–45, 141

Hawking, Stephen, 250–256

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 166, 171–175, 182, 192

Hegel, Georg Friedrich, 3–4, 30–31, 45, 54–55, 248

Heidegger, Martin, 45

Heraclitus, 23, 27, 247

Hindu nationalism, 8, 10–11, 46, 153, 189

historicised reading, necessity of, 13, 15, 100

history

as art, 124

as body/clothing, 33, 41

as construct, 52, 126, 156, 202–203, 256

as cure of history, 191, 224