Volume II Issue II April-June 2022

Name of Author : Ishtiaq Ahmad & Shahnawaz Ahmad

Title of the paper : Elements of Partition in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Abstract: Amitav Ghosh presents the hollowness of partition which plays a very crucial role in knitting the frame of The Shadow Lines 1988. Amitav Ghosh upholds the theme of partition to be the cause of human sufferings through the character of Tha’mma. Ghosh’s primary argument in the novel is that the frontiers are constructed to separate one nation from another and these frontiers are not real but mere shadows. The aim of my paper is to present the harsh effect of partition of India in 1971 to declare East Pakistan now Bangladesh as an independent nation. In the novel, Tha’mma’s personal loss intensifies through men made boundaries or partition which was created during the partition of India.

Keywords : Boundaries, Frontiers, Nation, Partition, Shadows

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Page No. : 112-114