Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part B (2025)

The research paper critically examines Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as a narrative that bridges the historical trajectory from colonial exploitation to the homogenizing forces of globalization, revealing their shared ecological and cultural disruptions. The novel situates the Sundarbans a fragile mangrove ecosystem as a contested space where Western capitalist ideologies clash with indigenous lifeways. Through postcolonial ecocritical analysis, the text exposes how globalization perpetuates colonial legacies by commodifying nature and marginalizing subaltern communities, while also offering alternative visions of coexistence rooted in local myth and tradition. This paper examines how the novel charts the trajectory from colonization to globalization, revealing the deep-seated cultural and ecological consequences of these overlapping historical processes. Colonial interventions in the Sundarbans through reclamation projects, cartographic control, and economic exploitation irreversibly altered the fragile mangrove ecosystem and disrupted indigenous ways of life. These disruptions set in motion patterns of displacement, marginalization, and ecological imbalance that persist into the era of globalization.