... as bhatir desh, the land of eighteen tides. The land itself is inconstant, subject to radical transformation as a result of late summer storms and tide water. At the beginning of twentieth century, a rich and visionary Scotsman, Sir Daniel MacKinnon Hamilton, who believed in the dictum 'labour conquers everything,' founded ... are a way of life. It is a difficult life that leaves most women widowed at a young age and land barely because of the salt water of the hungry tide that cannot always be prevented from flooding the fields. As in his other novels, Amitav Ghosh shows here an a...

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