The Conflict Of Nation And Partition In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

  • Bhavani P
  • Kannadhasan D
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Amitav Ghosh is a postmodernist writer. He is immensely influenced by the political and cultural milieu of post-independent India. Being a social anthropologist and having the opportunity of visiting alien lands, he comments on the present scenario, the world is passing through in his novels. Almost all the works of Amitav Ghosh reflected the theme of borders and boundaries among nations. The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh, published in 1988. The Shadow Lines is the novel deal exclusively with the consequences of the Partition and mainly concerned with the Partition on the Bengal border. It is important to note that Ghosh happens to be the only major Indian-English novelist who is preoccupied with the Bengal Partition. There was a collective expression of grief, a demonstration of all religions in which Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus alike to took part. In January 1964 Mu-I-Mubarak was recovered and the city of Srinagar erupted with joy. But soon after the recovery, riots broke out in Khulna and a few people were killed.

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Bhavani, P., & Kannadhasan, Dr. M. (2019). The Conflict Of Nation And Partition In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. History Research Journal, 5(4), 59–66. https://doi.org/10.26643/hrj.v5i4.7117

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