the Chromosome of Calcutta ( The Calcutta Chromosome ) is a novel in English of Amitav Ghosh published in 1995. The work, which proceeds essentially with Calcutta, in an unspecified future, is a medical thriller putting in scene characters apparently without report/ratio, which a succession of mysterious events brings to meet.

The novel is freely inspired by the life of the doctor and British entomologist Ronald Ross, Nobel Prize of medicine 1902 for its precursory work on the Paludisme of the birds (1895-1898).

the Chromosome of Calcutta received the Prix Arthur C. Clarke in 1997.

French edition

• the Chromosome of Calcutta , Amitav Ghosh, ED. threshold, Paris, 1998, coll Tally green