Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Outside the Circle - A Study of The Circle of Reason -- Indira Bhatt -- 18 -- The Circle of Reason: Caught up in Circles -- Ulka Joshi -- 25 -- Here's God's Plenty -- Darshana Trivedi -- 34 -- Time in The Shadow Lines -- Urbashi Barat -- 40 -- Going Away/Coming Home: Points of fixity or The Shadow Lines -- Amina Amin -- 50 -- The Shadow Lines and The Questioning of Nationalism -- Rahul Sapra- -- 57 -- Chronology, Character and Points of View in The Shadow Lines -- K. Ratna Sheila Mani -- 67 -- Private History, Individual Memory and the Amateur Historian: -- A Study of The Shadow Lines -- Pallavi Gupta -- 75 -- Political Freedom and Communal Tension in The Shadow Lines -- Novy Kapadia -- 83 -- The Narrator in The Shadow Lines: Coming To Terms with Reality -- Gita Chaudhari -- 93 -- The Narrative Technique of The Shadow Lines -- Chhote LalKhatri -- 99 -- A Traveller's Tale : In An Antique Land -- ReenaKothari -- 107 -- Nouns and conjunction in In An Antique Land -- Shyam S. Agarwalla -- 112 -- Roots of Alienation -- NutanDamor -- 125 -- Subversion of History in / through Fiction: -- A Study of The Shadow Lines and In An Antique Land -- Nirzari Pandit -- 133 -- Footprints of History -- Darshana Trivedi -- 142 -- Merging the Past and The Present -- Bharati A Parikh -- 150 -- A Sense of Space and Time: The Calcutta Chromosome -- Indira Nityanandam -- 158 -- An Ontology of the Elsewhere: -- Rhizomatics in The Calcutta Chromosome -- Pramod Nayar -- 163 -- The Calcutta Chromosome: A Post-Colonial Novel -- Madhumalati Adhikari -- 177 -- The Calcutta Chromosome: A (Counter)-Science Fantasy of Suspense -- Tantra and Interpersonal Transference -- A.G. Khan -- 184 -- Disappearances and Discovery: A Study of The Calcutta Chromosome -- Indira Bhatt -- 189 -- The Calcutta Chromosome: A Miracle of Rare Device -- J.D. Soni -- 197 -- The Theme of Quest in The Calcutta Chromosome -- K.K Parekh -- 206 -- Feverish Fallacy: The Calcutta Chromosome -- Ramesh KumarGupta -- 222 -- Countdown: A Portrayal of the Dance of Death -- Amar Nath Prasad -- 227 -- Contributors -- 238.

Contributed articles of critical appreciation on Amitav Ghosh's novels.