Migration in select novels of Amitav ghosh a study

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1 newlineABSTRACT newlineThe thesis Migration in Select Novels of Amitav Ghosh: A Study examined the issues of migrants with a reference to the literary representations of the colonial and postcolonial times. The study involves the causes and affects of migration and the struggles of dislocation. Migration occurs either voluntary or involuntary and so many factors like political, historical, cultural and economical under the sociological aspect which effect the people physically and psychologically to migrate from one place to another place. Migration is not a new term, mass migration is taking place from ancient times. Indentured labours migrate to new land on the boat and cross the borders and suffers a lot for their survival and for their identity. Migrants, who settles in new land cling between their mother land and the foreign land. newlineIntroduction newlineAmitav Ghosh is very prominent author in the genre of modern Indian English novel. His literary concerns are histories, knowledge systems, culture and beliefs. He has a discrete identity among his contemporaries. Ghosh has become one of the central figures to have emerged from the English literary field to the new writing in the 1980 s. His writngs have intiated criticism of universalism and nationalism. Ghosh books enable the readers to rethink the social, philosophical and cultural issues. newlineGhosh father was a lieutenant-colonel in the Indian army who later became a diplomat. As a result, Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. As a consequence of this, in almost all major works of Ghosh, he never miss an opportunity in portraying the dilemma of migration and its consequences. He is a continual researcher, traveler, journalist, novelist, and an essayist. Since Ghosh is a febrile traveler and a diasporic writer, he details with the theme of background work of history in his novels. newline2 newlineTherefore, the study tries to explore migration as a theme with reference to colonial and postcolonialism. newlineThe writings of Ghosh plays an important and unique role in the field of postcolo