A Migratory Travel Towards Amitav Ghosh’s Diasporic Scenario In “The Glass Palace”

Abstract

Stipulating a broader socio-cultural shift from pure origins to mixed norms in the adoptive country, a person, a
community, or a group of people move from their native place to a foreign land, a phenomenon known as
Diasporic literature. In postcolonial literature, it takes the lion’s share, and as a result of this transition, Diaspora
communities are unable to maintain their cultural identities, causing them to deal with feelings of alienation,
nostalgia, and yearning. When people cross the divide into a hybrid setting, they embrace multiculturalism or
suffer from chronic trauma. For example, the hybrid method creates a space for cross-cultural dialogue, allowing
hybrid businesses to participate in a dialectic not solely centred on cultural domination or identity. They create
network visions and ancient reminiscent variations that deliver narrative expression to the minority locations
they inhabit, using the fragmented subculture from which they emerge to the out of doors of the inside: the
component in the whole. As a result, migrant metaphors and migratory landscapes have been at the crux of the
diaspora and serve as milestones to better understand the displaced, their suffering, and their continual wish to
return home. It is necessary to raise the voices of those who are socially, politically, and geographically outside
the hegemonic power structure. Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace depicts three generations of dispersed Indians,
illustrating the trauma and alienation of the dispersed Indians, as well as their fantasies of returning home. This
article investigates the process of dispersed Indians' identity construction and positioning, focusing on their
condition as shown in the novel. This article also explores Ghosh's images of dispersed Indians via the lens of
certain diasporic narratives.