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Amitav Ghosh

This award-winning author of nine novels and six nonfiction books was born in Kolkata, India and now divides his time between India and the United States. His novels include The Circle of Reason and The Hungry Tide.

Dipesh Chakrabarty

This historian was was born in Kolkata, India. He wrote an essay called "The Climate of History," in which he defines the Anthropocene era as one in which "humans have become geological agents, changing the most basic physical processes of the earth" (9).

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

This nineteenth-century Bengali novelist and critic is referenced in the text for his critique of the Bengali Sanskrit School of literature. He argued against more traditional Indian forms of narrative in preference for more Western traditions in realism.

Adam Sobel

This meteorologist and professor of Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University is referenced several times in the...

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