Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource At the Interface of Colonial Knowing and Unknowing: A Critical Reading of the Golden Camellia in Amitav Ghoshs River of Smoke Subject The topic of the resource agnotology; Amitav Ghosh; colonial botany; Golden Camellia; River of Smoke; South Asian literatures Description An account of the resource This paper is a critical reading of Amitav Ghoshs fictional representation of modes of acquisition, assimilation and dissemination of colonial knowledge in River of Smoke (2012). The paper highlights the cultural exchange of botanical and horticultural knowledge between Europe and China in the nineteenth century narrativized by Ghosh. The novel illustrates the significance of non-Eurocentric modes of conserving knowledge that would otherwise suffer from the violence of utilitarian models of European epistemology. The paper explicates how Ghosh represents the Chinese as successful in ensuring that the Golden Camelliaa rare flowering variety in Chinais preserved from falling prey to the profiteering logic of botanical expeditions and epistemic hegemony by European naturalists. Using Pramod Nayars imperial cosmopolitanism and Robert Proctors agnotology as critical frames, the paper maps Ghoshs fictional representation of Chinese horticulturists using botanical illustration to disable Europeans from accessing the Golden Camellia. By circulating the nonexistence of the plant variety as the truth, the Chinese horticulturalists in the novel prevent the Golden Camellia from being usurped and profiteered by European botanists and plant traders. The paper also establishes how Ghoshs work functions as a significant addition to works foregrounding the South-South connection in the South Asian literary imagination. 2020 South Asian Literary Association. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jayagopalan G. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived South Asian Review, Vol-41, No. 45750, pp. 350-362. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Routledge Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2020.1789428" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2020.1789428</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85149511569&amp;doi=10.1080%2F02759527.2020.1789428&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=133edb33e3538e7dfb7bcce4e65b0fd6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85149511569&amp;doi=10.1080%2f02759527.2020.1789428&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=133edb33e3538e7dfb7bcce4e65b0fd6</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 2759527 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Jayagopalan G., Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India