• October to December 2025 Article ID: NSS9481 Impact Factor:8.05 Cite Score:202 Download: 18 DOI: https://doi.org/10.63574/nss.9481 View PDf

    Ecological and Environmental Concerns in select works of Amitav Ghosh

      Dr. Sanjay Singh Solanki
        Associate Professor (English) Govt. College, Alote, Dist. Ratlam (M.P.)

Abstract- This paper examines the ecological and environmental degradation in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels namely, The Hungry Tide, Gun Island and The Glass Palace. It also explores the relationship between human and nature. At the same time it also talks about exploitation of the natural resources and its impact on the climate change. Through these novels Amitav Ghosh has established himself as savior of environmental issues. His novels show brutal realities of industrialization and its impact on environment and human. This paper is also an attempt to persuade scholars to study his novels through environmental dimensions, which have been rarely explored. The objective of this study is to analyze and examine the depiction of environmental degradation due to human greed. Amitav Ghosh explores ecological concerns across The Hungry Tide, Gun Island and The Glass Palace by Intervening environmental degradation with human history, migration and colonialism. These novels highlight the fragility of ecosystem, human-nature conflicts, and the impacts of climate change and exploitation.

Keywords - Ecology, Environment, climate change, colonialism, displacement, sunderbans, mangrove.