Revisiting 2002 Gujarat Carnage in Githa Hariharan’s Fugitive Histories

Abstract

Revisiting 2002 Gujarat Carnage in Githa Hariharan’s Fugitive Histories Abstract:This present research paper focuses on the issues of power politics and the ideology of Hindu ruler in Githa Hariharan’s Fugitive Histories. Beside this, the researcher has tried to find why Mahatma Gandhi has been criticized and compared with Muslim Asad in the novel. In addition to this, he differentiates the official and unofficial narration of the Gujarat pogrom history and attempts to prove the people in the power dominate and subjugate the powerless because of their inherent ideology. Therefore, revealing out the issue of brutality of the state, to provide justice to the victims of the Gujarat Carnage (2002) and to excavate the real history in the text are the main focuses of the study. In order to analyze the text, the new historicist concepts like power, discourse, meta history, anecdote etc. are used in this research. By using new historicists’ ideas, the research establishes an idea that the state, ideology and powerful people play dominant role to make history and sustain in power to reach in power and be dominant in the state. Key words: New historicism, power, ideology, brutality, state and history