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@article{184701,
        author = {Sirajudheen P and Dr. Abubakkar KK},
        title = {Echoes of Marichjhapi: Refugee Trauma in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {3002-3005},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184701},
        abstract = {The Hungry Tide, written by Amitav Ghosh in 2004, is a notable literary contribution to the historical and political debate in post-colonial India on ecological justice, state authority, and forced migration. This paper contends that Ghosh excavates, commemorates, and critiques the 1979 Marichjhapi massacre—an incident that has been virtually omitted from official state narratives—by using the fictional story as a potent historiographic tool. The novel examines the complex predicament of the Bengali refugee settlers of Marichjhapi using a multifaceted approach focused on the characters of Piya Roy, Kanai Dutt, and Fokir. This study looks at how Ghosh portrays their predicament as a complicated continuity that includes displacement, the fight for desh (homeland), the conflict between subaltern ecology and statist modernity, and the eventual erasure of their tale rather than as a single violent occurrence. This paper illustrates how literature functions as an essential repository for subaltern histories by examining the novel’s structure, characterization, and symbolic use of the Sundarbans landscape. It does this by providing a voice to the marginalized and raising timeless issues regarding citizenship, human rights, and what it means to belong in the contemporary world.},
        keywords = {The Hungry Tide, Marichjhapi Massacre, Refugees, Subaltern Studies, Displacement.},
        month = {September},
        }