A Study of Blurred Demarcation between History and Fiction in Amitav Ghosh'sThe Glass Palace
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Inaugural postcolonial author, Amitav Ghosh, portrays the issue of colonial
discourse and its immediate aftermath in the novelThe Glass Palaceby exposing the
brutality of Anglo-white's regime in South East Asia; and also the impact these events
had on lives of families and individuals as well. Ghosh depicts the tide of political and
social chaos caused by the horror of colonialism on Burmese lives in the 1880s with
the help of recalled memories and experiences that fabricate the history of the then
Burma during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through this novel which
proves to be the history in an alternative version, challengingthe official version of
national history that blurs the age-old contradistinctionary dispute between history
and fiction.