Cultural Sustainability In Amitav Ghosh’s Sea Of Poppies

Abstract

The start of civilisation was the cause for the movement of people from their motherland to unpredictable alienated lands. This movement around international territories developed new concepts that paved the way for new engagements and standards for researchers. Wars, globalisation and colonialism are the significant ideological forces which are restructuring universal relationships. As individuals incorporate into new societies and redefine their identities in new environments, acculturation and cultural relativism saw the analytical method of comprehending contemporary processes of movement of people across borders. As the displaced create more complex relationships, they tend to regroup and congregate with others who have already moved to the alienated lands. Reforming, integrating and renegotiating are the prominent themes of the migrant groups that encounter new host environments.

Amitav Ghosh himself is not new to travel, and displacement and displacement occupy a unique place in the fictional works. Though his characters are commonly nomadic, they move from one place to another, and some establish diaspora. In alienated places, they as diasporic establish communities and collective homes; these communities are ever subject to change with time and place.