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In the wake of postmodernism and post-colonialism, reality has come to be perceived in a quite unprecedented manner. When it comes to the representation of historical reality by contemporary authors, they have focused their attention on such facets of past that had remained hidden either due to dominant ideology or due to the negligent attitude of the writers. Amitav Ghosh is undoubtedly one of those major contemporary authors who have commingled historical events and imaginative insights whereby a unique picture of the past has come to the fore. Thus Ghosh seems to have both fictionalized history and historicized fiction in his novels by means of which he has come to be known as an exponent of postmodern historical novels. The objective of this paper is to study Sea of Poppies as a historical novel in which Ghosh has conjoined history and fiction in such a manner that all barriers between history and fiction seem to have crumbled.