SHADOWS OF HISTORY IN THE SHADOW LINES

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh in all his novels tries to retrieve the events tucked behind the pages of history. The Shadow Lines deals with history, independence of India and the partition of the country. The partition was an event whose consequences were entirely unexpected and whose meaning was never fully spelled out or understood either by the politicians who took the decision or the millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs who were to become its victims. The ethnic and social unrest created political chaos within the states. One such event is the riots of 1964.