Abstract

This chapter explores how the eminent Indian Anglophone writer Amitav Ghosh represents a variety of refugee figures in his novels. From the political (the Indian Partition) refugees in The Circle of Reason (1986) and The Shadow Lines (1988), the ethno-religious refugees in The Glass Palace (2000), and the “Bastuhara” (dispossessed) refugees rowing in The Hungry Tide (2004) to the economic migrants on the Blue Boat stranded in the Mediterranean on its way to Italy in Gun Island (2019), Ghosh's treatment of the identity of the refugee has accommodated multiplicity of vision with time. I have also emphasized the formation of shared identity and solidarity of the refugees in Ghosh's major novels.

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