ONE of Hamilton’s stands may have been named after a local Indian eaterie, but the South Lanarkshire town is about as far removed from the manic sights and sounds of Kolkata as you could get.

For Dan Seaborne, though, Martin Canning’s new recruit from Indian Premier League side Mohun Bagan, it is a place where he instantly feels back at home following his brief stay in West Bengal.

The former Partick Thistle defender quit Firhill in the summer with the spirit of foreign adventure in his sails, but loneliness soon had the big centre-back pining for more familiar surroundings.

While he says he will again seek to sample football in a foreign land in the future, he is happy to have been given a chance again in a league that he knows so well, and hopes to get a taste of it again in today’s home match against Ross County.

“It’s quite a change of pace from Kolkata,” Seaborne said “I’ve gone from a million miles an hour over there to just normal life again. It was a good experience though, a lot of fun.

“I decided to go abroad after getting the contract offer from Partick Thistle and a few other teams in Scotland. I had a few offers as well from teams down in League One that were decent.

“Greece, Turkey and Cyprus came up, and then India came up and I thought,‘Why not’? I went with that but when I got out there it just wasn’t for me at this point of my life.

“My Mrs, Sophia, couldn’t come out, we couldn’t take the dog out and that was the toughest part, being out there on your own. There was also a four or five-hour time difference so you were trying to talk to people and they weren’t out of bed yet, or you were texting them and not getting anything back.

“It was a great experience and it was an eye-opener, but it probably just wasn’t for me at this particular time in my life.

“You’ve got the team I was with, Mohun Bagan, and East Bengal, and they have 100,000 fans to their games. That’s their kind of Rangers vs Celtic. It was a decent standard and the fans were brilliant, but I just wasn’t feeling it.

“Other things were coming up and I was thinking that I’d like to pursue them, and when you get something that is right you don’t think like that.

“That probably made my mind up in the end and showed me that my heart wasn’t in it.

“It’s a strange set-up, but other people like it. Daryl Duffy was at the same team as I was and he’s absolutely loving it out there and is doing really well. The fans have really taken to him and they all love him over there, so fair play to him for adjusting.

“The one thing that is better over there is the curries, they were absolutely tremendous. I went for a curry the other night and it was good, but it wasn’t as good as over there.”

A report in the Indian press after Seaborne had decided to leave Mohun Bagan claimed that Greek giants Olympiacos were interested in his services.

While Seaborne corrected that particular story, the stature of clubs he did hold discussions with will have Hamilton feeling they have pulled off quite a coup by attracting him to the Superseal Stadium.

He said: “It wasn’t Olympiacos, it was Panathinaikos. Talks went on but we couldn’t agree personal terms.

“It was something that came up, went cold a little bit and then came up again. Then I spoke to another fella that sorted the deal out to come here, and I just felt it was best to come back to Glasgow and see what the options were. There were a few options in Scotland and some in England, but I didn’t want to move to London so Glasgow was the place that I wanted to stay.”

Although his former club in the Ladbrokes Premiership have publicly stated they are also on the lookout for a centre-half, Seaborne says that a return to Partick Thistle was never likely.

“I didn’t speak to them because me and the manager had sat down a few times and I was always of the opinion that I was going to go abroad and play,” he said. “Obviously Archie [Alan Archibald] was great with me and the club were brilliant with me, and we parted on great terms, so I think it might have been a little bit of a shock that it’s come full-circle and I’ve signed for another team near Glasgow.

“I’ve spoken to a few of the lads there but haven’t spoken to any of the management staff as yet. We play them in a few weeks so we’ll get the chance then.”