A noticeable feature of the contemporary novel is that it has become increasingly saturated with history and writers from the postcolonial world in particular are becoming even more deeply historically conscious. Literature representing historical events, and historiography using elements of the literary discourse have helped blur the distinctions between the two disciplines and Ghosh's work can be viewed from the perspective of 'literature as historiography'. Amitav Ghosh treads, quite adroitly, the fine line between historicizing fiction and fictionalizing history. In this thesis I have approached the novels of Amitav Ghosh from the historiographical standpoint.pI have selected four historical novels for my study. The novels are The Glass Palace, and the three novels published as Ibis Trilogy, namely Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire.pThe introduction covers the relevance of historical novels, Ghosh's life and works and the reception of Ghosh in India and abroad .The m