NATIVE IN THE NOVELS OF AMITAV GHOSH (Pages 32-39) by Mr. G. Mahendranath* and Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy** in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

This paper titled, nativism in the novels of Amitav Ghosh focuses on a deeper understanding between the author and the world. Ghosh novels may be called a fiction, love story, historical re-invention or a metaphorical novel. The author brings out the vision of Nativism which is both personal and a social cause that is put forth towards the life of a common man. Amitav Ghosh an eminent scholar, Writer and an anthropologist has been a visionary through the twentieth century diasporic novels. Ghosh is a regular traveler and thus his books have also been called a travelogue. This travel has bought out a deeper understanding towards common people, combining historical themes bringing truth out of a tale and shaping new colors to the existing potrait. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in the year 1948 to a Bengali family, His Father, Shailendra Chandra Ghosh a Military officer. Wife Deborah Baker, The author of Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company. Ghosh became a faculty at Queens College, New York as Distinguished Professor in Comparative literature, also became a visiting professor at Harvard University. He came back to India, later he published the Ibis Trilogy. Sea of Poppies(2008), River of Smoke(2011), Flood of Fire (2015), The Great derangement: The climate change and the unthinkable(2016). He was awarded the Padma Shri by The Indian Government and Elected as the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and named a ford foundation Art of Challenge Fellow in 2015. Ghosh fine tunes the status of humanity to create new ways to rethink for a new world. Ghosh brings out the hidden art of native practices and culture through his novels, The author also portrays the extinct of such nativity through the influences of the Western culture and practices. This paper focuses on the question of nativity through will and nativity through struggle? Is this a global act or an extinction of nativity? This paper also finds a glimpse of the authors personal influence over nativity.his paper titled, nativism in the novels of Amitav Ghosh focuses on a deeper understanding between the author and the world. Ghosh novels may be called a fiction, love story, historical re-invention or a metaphorical novel. The author brings out the vision of Nativism which is both personal and a social cause that is put forth towards the life of a common man. Amitav Ghosh an eminent scholar, Writer and an anthropologist has been a visionary through the twentieth century diasporic novels. Ghosh is a regular traveler and thus his books have also been called a travelogue. This travel has bought out a deeper understanding towards common people, combining historical themes bringing truth out of a tale and shaping new colors to the existing potrait. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in the year 1948 to a Bengali family, His Father, Shailendra Chandra Ghosh a Military officer. Wife Deborah Baker, The author of Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company. Ghosh became a faculty at Queens College, New York as Distinguished Professor in Comparative literature, also became a visiting professor at Harvard University. He came back to India, later he published the Ibis Trilogy. Sea of Poppies(2008), River of Smoke(2011), Flood of Fire (2015), The Great derangement: The climate change and the unthinkable(2016). He was awarded the Padma Shri by The Indian Government and Elected as the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and named a ford foundation Art of Challenge Fellow in 2015. Ghosh fine tunes the status of humanity to create new ways to rethink for a new world. Ghosh brings out the hidden art of native practices and culture through his novels, The author also portrays the extinct of such nativity through the influences of the Western culture and practices. This paper focuses on the question of nativity through will and nativity through struggle? Is this a global act or an extinction of nativity? This paper also finds a glimpse of the authors personal influence over nativity.Keywords: nativity, freedom, influences, Amitav Ghosh.