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Amitav Ghosh's literary oeuvre is characterised by a scrupulously researched quality that evokes a sense of verisimilitude akin to that of a lengthy documentary that has been transformed into a narrative work of fiction. Ghosh does not purport to offer a historically accurate account, but rather he endeavours to recount the stories of those events and episodes from history that have been either overlooked, neglected, or sparsely documented. By situating his fictional works within specific historical frameworks, Ghosh brings to life these seemingly "minor" events and episodes, thus presenting an alternative interpretation of historical facts through his literary craftsmanship. Ghosh's fictional narratives serve as a means of reconstructing history by retrieving and reclaiming such "minor" events and episodes. His seminal works, including The Shadow Lines (1988), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), as well as the recent novels comprising the Ibis trilogy, are all examples of such fictional narratives that seek to extricate and retrieve forgotten, vanished, and effaced episodes and events from the annals of official history.