Ghosh in EssaysThe Imam and The Indian Collection of Essays (2002)

IN The Imam and The Indian, Ghosh acts like an anthropologist, a non-Western, Indian Hindu and a man of letters in the context of relations between Hindu India and Muslim Egypt. A collection of essays, the work is based on his experiences doing fieldwork in Egypt in 1980.

In Categories of Labour and the Orientation of the Fellah Economy, for instance, Ghosh looks into the metaphysic