A Study on the Intrinsic Value of Beings in Amitav Gosh’s The Hungry Tide

Abstract

The Hungry Tide is a novel that deals with a peculiar environment and its inhabitants. The postcolonial consciousness in Amitav Gosh makes him track the histories and provide his audience with the draft of Dalit refugees from Bangladesh. With the environmental issue as the main concern of the conservation group and the forceful throwing out, of Bangladeshi refugees from the island, a battle line is drawn between the conservation group who, support the non-humans in the island and human rights group who, stand for underprivileged and disadvantaged people of the Sunderbans. The paper thus analyses the injustice that are carried on to the land and to its people paving way for ecological wisdom and focuses on the importance of ecosophia specially in places like Sunderbans.