BLURRED CONCEPT OF NATION IN AMITAV GHOSH’S WORKS

Abstract

This article highlights the frailty of the concept of nation. And to prove that one it brings into light the existence of porous zone in a particular nation. Porous zone in a particular nation becomes a safe zone of illegal migration and immigration and as a result of it each and every nation remains alert in guarding the porous zone of that nation. This paper investigates the influence of porous zone through the analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s works on the essential aspect of nation. Not only this, it brings into light the constructed feature of nation which needs constant guarding. The demanded unity behind the concept of nation gets blurred when we find the influence of another ideology beyond border on the subject of a particular nation in spite of the existence of constructed ideology of that nation itself. Thus it proves that nation as concept is vulnerable to change. As long as nation as a concept is able to mitigate the demands of its subjects, people remain loyal to this concept. As soon as nation as a concept fails to stand on the expectation of its subjects, people start revolting against this. And this is what can be proved through the demands of separate states in a particular nation or through the revolution of citizens against its hegemonic structure. This growing globalized society deconstructs all the designed features of a particular nation through which elites want to impose a homogeneous identity.