Role of Partition in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Dr. M .N Abhilash

Vol. 20, Issue 1, Jul-Dec 2025

Abstract:

The focus of this paper is on the problem of partition in the society. Today partition is a major problem in the World. The present study deals with the history and culture of India in the society. Despite the physical isolation, bondage, cultural displacement, immigration, exile, communalism, identity and uprooting. The Shadow lines is a story of communal clashes between two religions. It shows the partition between the two cities of Calcutta and Dhakha. This constitutes a logical background in the novel and it makes readers probe the various interwoven facets of violence. Also, his treatment of violence in Calcutta and Dhakha in this novel is relevant even to the present. The novel deals with the concerns of our period, the search for identity, the need for freedom, the difficult relationship with colonial culture. It is a continuous narrative which replicates the pattern of violence not only of 1964 but also in the 21st century. The fragmentary narratives unfold the narrator’s experience in the form of memories which move backwards and forwards.

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