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| Paper Title: | Contrapuntal Reading, Orientalism and the Rewriting of Histories: A Saidian Approach of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke” |
| Authors Name: | Dr. parul saxena |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2512092 |
| Published In: | Volume 10 Issue 12, December-2025 |
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| Abstract: | Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy constitutes a socio-historical study of colonial India. This study offers a critical reading of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke through the theoretical lens of Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism, examining how the novel engages with colonial representations and explores imperial knowledge systems. Through the historical context of the nineteenth-century opium trade, the narrative traces across transnational spaces shaped by commerce, cultural contact, and colonial dictatorship. The main focus of this paper is to address how imperial histories have traditionally privileged Eurocentric perception while rendering colonised voices peripheral or invisible. In the lens of Saidian framework, the paper presents that River of Smoke actively resists Orientalist modes of observation by dispersing narrative authority across several cultural perspectives. Ghosh’s use of different linguistic voices, shifting centralisation, and interlinked personal histories challenges the coherence of imperial discourse and reveals the constructed nature of colonial knowledge. The novel further explains how cultural exchange and commerce functioned not only as economic enterprises but as ideological traditions sustaining imperial control, even as they produced spaces of cultural negotiation and hybrid identity. River of Smoke depicts the empire as a site of contestation rather than unilateral power. The study opines that Ghosh’s novel presents as a literary investigation in light of Said's critical work, focusing on alternative historical consciousness that retold the suppressed stories and complex inherited understandings of colonial modernity. |
| Keywords: | Amitav Ghosh; River of Smoke; Edward Said; Orientalism; Colonial Discourse; Postcolonial Historiography. |
| Cite Article: | "Contrapuntal Reading, Orientalism and the Rewriting of Histories: A Saidian Approach of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke”", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.a726-a730, December-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2512092.pdf |
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