Diaspora is a psychological journey, a dilemma between homeland and new settlement nations. The migrant, journeying from place to place becomes a stranger in other land and this alienation makes an effect on identity, psychological peace and existential status. Amitav Ghosh, a novelist with an extraordinary sense of history and place, is indisputably one of the most important novelists of our time. Diasporic writing occupies a place of great significance between countries and cultures. Diasporic writings mostly become a response to the lost homes and to issues such as dislocation, nostalgia, discrimination, survival, cultural change and identity. Dislocation is one of the first feelings that haunt the diasporic community. When diasporic people find themselves dislocated from the home, society they are upset mentally and strive to remember and locate themselves in a nostalgic past. Amitav Ghosh shows a keen interest in projecting the diasporic life. Many of his narratives focus on the histories of exoduses and the individual’s diasporic experiences. The blend of history and anthropology in Ghosh’s novels helps him to bring out the present of the past in many aspects, including diaspora. He views the wars, politics, economy and other worldly affairs from the perspective of the common people who suffer under all these major events and changes.
Professor & Former Head, P. G. Dept. of English, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya
