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Professor Amrith to lead Global Literature Online Book Group discussion

September 30, 2015

Professor Sunil Amrith of the Departments of History and South Asian Studies at Harvard University, will lead an online book group discussion of Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies. The novel, the first of the Ibis Trilogy, follows the ship Ibis across the Indian Ocean during the 19th century opium trade and brings together a diverse cast of characters in the historical adventure.

Amrith joined Harvard at the start of 2015 as the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History, with a particular interest in history of public health, migration and...

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