阿米塔夫·高什(Amitav Ghosh)是今天用英语创作的最知名的印度作家之一。作为小说家、人类学家和文艺评论家,高什在创作四本小说和三本非小说作品之后,2002年出版了他的第八本书《伊玛目和印度人》(TheIman and the Indian)。阿米塔夫1956年生于加尔各答,是牛津大学的社会人类学博士。在第一部小说写成之前,为了搞清一个中世纪埃及犹太商人的印度奴隶的身世,他曾在埃及查阅了大量的 Amitav Ghosh is one of the most famous Indian writers in English today. As a novelist, anthropologist and literary critic, Gosh published his eighth book, “The Imam and the Indian,” in 2002 after writing four novels and three non-fiction works ). Armitage was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is a PhD in social anthropology at Oxford University. Before the first novel was written, in order to understand the life history of the Indian slave of a medieval Egyptian Jewish merchant, he had consulted in Egypt a large number of