Freedom from political colonialism came as a refreshing wind to write and historical nationalist issues such as diaspora, migration, refugees, colonial hegemony; socio-economic and cultural issues like east-west encounter, caste and class etc. become the main concerns of Amitav Ghosh. The present ...
In the autobiographical book, Valmiki describes how members of the Chuhra community — the caste he belonged to — would be served joothan by their upper caste masters as wages for manual labour. Valmiki describes, in excruciating detail, how the Chuhras would collect the remains of the meal...
Although she is a Bengali, she can speak in Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, and Konkani fluently.
Ghosh establishes a double distanciation from working class/'lower' caste narratives of gender variance, and constructs a class-restricted script of gender choice and fluidity premised on bourgeois trajectories of modernization. This becomes particularly ironic and poignant in light of hir appropriation ...
Caste and class etc. become the main concerns of Amitav Ghosh. The present paper is proposed to examine the nation as identity in "The Shadow Lines" which as a memory novel, sketches few historical events like the freedom movement in Bengal, the second world war and the Partition of India...