Freedom In Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh is one of the most celebrated Indian writers best known for his work in English Fiction. Historical Fiction is his main genre. Freedom from political colonialism came as an innovative blow to the Indian authors who were now excited to portray their indigenous beliefs and ethos with a fresh angle. Post-colonial Indian English authors like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh etc. expressing with great vividness enthusiasm and a level of self-reliance have liberated Indian English Literature from the colonial nexus: These conscious honest writers have touched Historical Nationalist issues such as diaspora, refugees, colonial hegemony; cultural and socioeconomic panoramas. Consequently they through such depiction touched the heart of real as well as true Indians. The present paper aims to bring out as how Amitav Ghosh portrayal of partition of India in 1947, the communal riots in Bangladesh and India, characters’ quest for self-identity and of-course of Nationality have awakened the numb souls of Indians.

Key words: - celebrated, genre, colonialism, ethos, hegemony etc.