History, Culture and Memoir: A Study of Cultural Translation in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land

ABSTRACT

In this article, two nations, specifically, Indian and Egyptian as depicted in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land have been depicted. In this novel, the narrator, Amitav Ghosh, who reels upon the parts, which bears the name Bomma, an Indian slave who was shipped off Egypt to Care for the matter of his lord, Ben Yiju goes to Egypt to follow his ancestor Bomma. During his visit in the Egyptian towns, he is managed regarding his way of life. He can’t interpret "circumcise", and that signifies "immaculateness". He is examined by the nearby individuals about his convictions, customs, religions, incinerations and so on, and he depicts India a socially mediocre country to Egypt. In process of things working out he discovers a few social associations between the two countries. The Egyptians feel that Indians are "uncircumcised" and generalized as tainted. He is too addressed who his God is and how is treated the dead at kicking the bucket. To the extent that the story procedure is concerned, Ghosh questions the provincial philosophy through post pilgrim account. His story illuminates pioneer philosophy of India, which is experienced with post pioneer story when the storyteller has remained for at some point in the new socially unique society. Consequently, it is broke down whether the way of life is truly unique, or it is just an issue of interpretation.

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