The Struggled Livelihood Of Colonized People In Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace

K. Sathishkumar, Dr. V. Govindarajan

Abstract


The present study examines colonizers’ repressive activities on colonized people in Amitav Ghosh’s very innovative novel The Glass Palace.  The study yet prepares how far colonized people suffered much from the colonizers in the name of imperialism.  British came to India in the name of imperialism.  It identified that Indians are having no unity and fully with diversity from religion, caste and little countries.  It was helped them to establish their ideology to catch the country and steal the wealth of the nation.  So, the imperialism and its impact gave a complete political change in all the commonwealth countries especially in India, Burma and Bangladesh. By the intrusions of colonizers, the British, the colonized, the Burmese included for repressiveness and have to loss their identity.  By the intrusions of the invader are colonizers, the colonized people would have to become as refugee in order to leave their home land by force.  So that, colonizers try to win their aim against the colonized and both hit each other in all sides.  Both try to implement their power.  So, colonized verses colonizers each other.


Keywords


Introduction, Colonizers, Colonized, Colonial Hit and Conclusion.

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