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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.
