Representation of the History of Cross-Cultural Diversity in Amitav Ghosh’s novel In an Antique Land

ABSTRACT

In this article, two cultures, specifically, Egyptian and India as depicted in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land have been explored. In this novel, the narrator, Amitav Ghosh, who spontaneously finds 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 predecessor Bomma. During his visit in the Egyptian towns, he is managed as far as his way of life. He can’t interpret "circumcise", which signifies "purity". He is grilled by the nearby individuals about his belief, customs, religions, incinerations and so on, and he depicts India a socially sub-par country to Egypt. In process of things working out he observes some to be social associations between the two cultures. The Egyptians believe that Indians are "uncircumcised" and generalized as unclean. He is likewise addressed who his God is and what is done to the dead at biting the dust. Taking everything into account, Ghosh questions the frontier philosophy through post pilgrim story. His narrative illuminates colonial philosophy of India, which is experienced with post-colonial story when the narrator has remained for at some point in the new culturally unique society. Along these lines, it is examined whether the culture is truly unique, or it is just an issue of interpretation.

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