THE MARGINALIZED ON THE MOVE: SEA OF POPPIES

Ghosh always looks into the root causes that reflect the historical as well asanthropological facts to renegotiate the subaltern discourse from the perspective ofconventional diaspora. The novel, Sea of Poppies is one of the works that discusses a welldesigned and societal constructed unprivileged mass who are oppressed and exploitedsubjects. The novel also highlights the lives of marginalized subalterns who are conditionedby the activities of the privileged people, economics and trade of the empire of the time. Thischapter describes and portrays precisely how the present is shaped by British-India. Thechapter also highlights how the colonialists have subdivided the present India into varioussections. The novel also clearly presents how human and cultural destruction and decadencehave taken place, which was caused due to imperialism. This statement applies to all thenovels of Amitav Ghosh including Sea of Poppies. The novel also reveals colonial oppressioncaused by a few white men who are desperate to re-establish the trade of opium andindentured laborers in the place of slavery, which was abolished by them. As mentioned,Amitav Ghosh examines subaltern problems from the perspectives of anthropological as wellas historical points of view. He renegotiates a discourse on sub-alternity from the point oftransmittal diaspora through the European colonies. In the course of this novel, he tries toexplore how this world is made of a few privileged people, masses of oppressed andexploited subjects. Apart from this he also discusses the lives of the marginalized sectionsconditioned and controlled by the movements of people and tradesmen of imperialism.Subsequently, the novel deals with the developments of the incidents that have beendelineated in connection to the present and it being structured by the British-India. Further, healso pays special attention to portraying the human devastation and decadence caused byimperialism