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Sea of Poppies (2008) by Ghosh short listed for the year's Man Booker Prize and received favorably by the Booker Jury for its compelling story told against an epical historical canvas. It is the first volume in the projected Ibis Trilogy and considered as "one of the masterpieces of the twenty-first century fiction. The setting of the novel is the colonial period of 1838 when the economy of Bengal and Bihar was dominated by East India Company's monopoly of opium trade in India. The events and the incidents of the novel throw light on the social, political and economic history of colonial India. Ghosh’s draws his material from history and anthropology to weave the story. It is the story of the girmitiyas- the indentured labourers, the poppy growing Peasants, Lascars, Migrants, exiled and displaced peoples whose story has been intertwined with the aspect of imperial trade and commerce in British history