Amitav Ghosh is a postmodern Indo-Anglian novelist whose novels pivot round multi culture, multi ethnic issues as the wondering cosmopolitan roves round and weaves them with his deft, narrative styl. This article focuses how Amitav Ghosh uses history against fiction and how he represents reality against fiction. In the 19th century, literature and history were considered branches of the same tree of learning, a tree which sought to interpret experience for the purpose of guiding and elevating man. Then came the separation that resulted in the distinct disciplines of literature and historical studies today despite the fact that the realist novel shared many similar beliefs about the possibility of writing factually about observable reality. This article explains how Ghosh captures and tries to capture and represent historical events of a flood and resettlement of the people in the Sundarbans delta, a remote unnoticed place in his novel The Hungry Tide.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
