Debunking the Myth of Postcolonial Indian Modernity in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

The present paper is an effort to study how Amitav Ghosh has looked at and critiqued the received or official notions of Indian postcolonial history and national narratives of modernity and progress in his The Hungry Tide (2004). At the same time, by foregrounding his views about the postcolonial modernity as represented in his The Hungry Tide. This paper also studies the fallout or negative consequences of unmindful progression of modernity in the Indian postcolonial context. Ghosh exhibits an astounding understanding of the socio-cultural and historical conditions in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent. Ghosh's description of the Sundarbans is a brilliant blending of fictional elements with accurate scientific knowledge of the natural world accumulated through rigorous field study. The Hungry Tide through its wide array of concerns seems to bring out the probletnatics of the Indian postcolonial modernity and plead the case of the richest ecosystem in the world.