Author: Nimai Chandra Roy
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/04010008
Abstract: Amitav Ghosh stands as one of the most influential contemporary Indian English novelists whose works transcend geographical, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. His novels weave together history, anthropology, ecology, migration, and politics into complex narrative structures that challenge conventional realism. This research article undertakes a comprehensive study and critical comparison of Amitav Ghosh’s major novels, including The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, the Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire), and Gun Island. Through thematic, stylistic, and ideological comparison, the study explores recurring motifs such as migration, nationalism, memory, colonialism, ecological crisis, subaltern agency, and globalization. The article argues that Ghosh’s oeuvre evolves from postcolonial historiography to ecocosmopolitan engagement while consistently interrogating borders—geographical, epistemological, and imaginative.
Keywords: Postcolonial Historiography; Migration and Diaspora; Global Capitalism; Ecological Consciousness; Cosmopolitanism.
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