An Ecocritism Perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Author Name : Mr. S.Raja, Dr. B.Devaki

ABSTRACT

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is a novel of expansionism, authority and quick industrialization and furthermore it gives us a brief outlook of how these variables influence the biology; and the very idea of our being in this planet. This epic portrays the opium development and opium exchanging between the countries preceding the primary opium war. It shows the life of certain characters and how opium influences the life of these people and the climate they are in. In this paper, the researcher analyses the intense changes in the climate due to the opium development and the opium admission of a character Hukum Singh causes cardio-vascular disappointment and prompts his end. English Raj's opium exchanging and indigo manors ruined Indians and their fruitful grounds. Opium in particular damages neuro-psychological elements of people and even as different animals which is depicted in this novel.

Sea of Poppies gives us knowledge of nineteenth century expansionism which has dangerously affected Indian fruitful grounds, waterways and other natural highlights. Paulette a character in this novel outlined as an offspring of nature. Another character, a French Botanist as collaborator custodian of Calcutta's Greenhouse, hard natured, could do little for save local plant species of India.

Deeti and Sarju, characters from Ocean of Poppies, inferred to the centrality of safeguarding seeds of local plant breeds for the group of people yet to come. Ganga, the hallowed waterway portrayed in this novel as the existence power of individuals from Bihar to Calcutta. Deeti had an instinct from this sacrosanct stream about her future. Hence Amitav Ghosh, in this novel, shows the decimation which happened to the Environment under the frontier rule in India for the sake of Economy.

Keywords: Colonialism, Hegemony, Ecology, Ganga, Opium, Nature, Seeds