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Tides of Myth And Ecology: Converging Narratives of Nature in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

Author(s) Mr. Mohd Hamza, Prof. Gunjan Sushil
Country India
Abstract Amitav Ghosh is one of the most influential and versatile post-colonial Indian English writer. Amitav ghosh gives special position to myth, oral narratives and history in his novels. He is well known for his multi-dimensional narrative that deals with variety of themes ranging from myth, religious belief, tradition, displacement, migration, torture, extortion, caste system and class dogmas to environmental concerns, ecocide and anthropocentrism. Amitav Ghosh’s novels are mixture of myth, oral narratives, fictional and non-fictional characters and situation. Amitav Ghosh provides a fresh re-interpretation to environmental issues and sustainability in post-modern world. Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide dig holes not only in Indian history but also applied the yardstick of mythology to prorate a glimpse of the primitive Indian society when both humans and nature live in harmony through the interpretation of the regional myth of Bon Bibi. Bon Bibi is the female protector of the inhabitants and natural landscape of the rich archipelago of Sundarbans. Sundarbans consist of heterogeneous group of people which belongs to diversified cultural, religious and social groups. Bon Bibi is the sole sustainer of all her adherents who searched for honey and other ecological glory in the impenetrable medley of swampland and falls victim of the demon who blitzkrieg them by assuming the shape of man-eater tiger amidst the pernicious jungle of Sundarbans. The myth of Bon Bibi ridicules the anthropoid conventions that human is the master of the nature and ecological means is primarily governed through their serviceability to human beings. The ecological myth of Bon Bibi served as a unifying factor that endorsed the development of an egalitarian society where human desires and natural rhythms never clash with each-other. Every breathing entity irrespective of their originality, religion, culture, caste, race and traditional dogmas prays the forces of nature to protect them from the cataclysmic and unbeknownst forces of their environment. The myth of Bon Bibi broaden their outlook and ecological consciousness that helps individual subject to concatenate with their traditional ideology and ecological ethics which in turns helps in the inviolability and preservation of prospering natural opulence during the period that reinforced annihilatory principles of the post-modern world. These mythological tales and oral narratives enable us to assess the importance of our environment and to take all the necessary steps to truncate the specimens of natural crisis and lethal pandemics.
Keywords Bon Bibi, Sundarbans, Ecocide, Oral Narratives, Sustainability and Myth
Field Arts
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-22
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.61091
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