International Journal Of Language, Literature And Culture(IJLLC)

I shall begin my paper with two quotations- one from T.S.Eliot and the other from Amitav Ghosh himself. T. S. Eliot says in “Gerontion” that history has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. Taking a cue from Eliot, Ghosh observes that if history forgets, fiction can remind us of many things. Ghosh interrogates the complex nature of history and its relationship with fiction in his novels. Colonial and national history is unitary, uni-dimensional and monolithic. Its course is set according to the agenda of the establishment which includes special focus on certain events and individuals and to resort to the strategy of silencing or ignoring those events or persons who can be inconvenient.