Where Fact Crosses Fiction

In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh; Ravi Dayal Publisher, New Delhi,
SOME years ago, the American critic Clifford Geertz wrote of a process of Intellectual deprovincialisation' that was making steady progress in the academy. The divisions between different disciplines, noted Geertz, were now running at some 'highly eccentric angles'. The most exciting work in the human sciences