Questioning of Nationalist Historiography in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Chet Raj
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-02T04:45:07Z
dc.date.available2022-09-02T04:45:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis research, based on Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide, explores the marginalization of peasant culture and the history of rebellion in Indian ‘nationalist’ historiography. Ghosh chronicles the gauged voice of refugees and peasants of Sundarban area, the victims of partition in West Bengal. Nilima, Nirmal and Kanai represent the social activists and visionaries of modern India whereas Fokir, Kusum and other settlers of Morichjhapi are illiterate rural peasants. The attempt of central government to flush these organized settlers from their settlement stands for the reluctance of Indian nationalist politics to recognize the alternative voice of these peasants. Moreover, this research is the analysis of how through the decades Indian nationalist history has attempted to reject the voice of illiterate local peasants as their ownen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/12703
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.subjectLiterary criticismen_US
dc.subjectIndian historiographyen_US
dc.subjectIndian nationalismen_US
dc.titleQuestioning of Nationalist Historiography in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tideen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Englishen_US

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