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

For Dan Seaborne though, Accies’ new recruit from Indian Premier League side Mohun Bagan, it is a place where he instantly feels 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 he hopes to get a taste of the action in today's home clash with Ross County.

“It’s quite a change of pace from Calcutta!” 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 which 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 couldn’t come out, we couldn’t take the dog out and that was the toughest part, being out there on your own.

“It was a great experience though and it was an eye-opener.

“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, so fair play to him for adjusting."

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 claim, the stature of clubs he did hold discussions with will have Hamilton feeling they have pulled off 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.

“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.

“This came up and it’s great.”

Although his former club in Scotland 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 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."