Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island

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Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
GUN ISLAND
Amitav Ghosh
Presented by:
MA Sem 4
Dhru...

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Points to ponder :
About the Author : Emisha Ravani
Characters Introduction : Divya Parmar
Plot Overview : Jheel Barad
T...

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Key Facts :
● Originally published: 6 June 2019
● Author: Amitav Ghosh
● Genres: Novel, Historical Fiction
● Cli-Fi
● Or...

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● Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta
and grew up in India, Bangladesh and
Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford
and Alex...

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Awards :
Jnanpith Award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Ananda Puraskar
Dan David Prize
Padma Shri

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2019 National Book Festival
Bengali folklore
The conflict between the merchant and the goddess of snake is
exactly the c...

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Little ice age – The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of
regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North
Atlanti...

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What he thinks about this novel?
- My book is just an attempt to do what I feel as I have always
done which is to respon...

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Learning Outcome:
For me, Climate Change, the topic was not new but the less
interested. After went through this novel i...

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Characters

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Characters as
Researcher
Protagonist
Dinonath
(Folklore)
Piyali Roy (Marine
biology)
Gia Cinta Schivan
(Historian)
Char...

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Other Characters :
Lisa (Entomologist, teaching)
Gisella or Gisa
Ruggiero
Altiero
Imma
Gia como
Lucia
(There is also pe...

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List of Some Migrated People in The Novel :
Lubna khala Alam
Munir
Palash
Bilal
Kabir

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Learning Outcome:
My reading of this novel leads me to read about climate changes with
happening around the world! If w...

PLOT OVERVIEW
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CLIMATE
UPHEAVALS
MASS
MIGRATION

CHAPTERS
Part 1: The Gun Merchant
Calcutta
Cinta
Tipu
The Shrine
Visions
Rani
Brooklyn
Wildfires
Los Angeles
Gun Island
Pa...

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Sequel of The Hungry Tide
Protagonist and narrator- DINANATH DUTTA (Dinu, Dino, Deen)- a dealer in rare books and
Asian...

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Nilima founded NGO, Badabon trust; get to know about the devastation due to Bhola Cyclone,
1970 though fisherman HOREN ...

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Cinta was the one who helped Dino to get job in NY. earlier he was librarian in Midwest.
He decides to Visit Shrine. Ta...

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Further story about merchant and Caption Ilyas who brought him by Rafi (pg 74-75)
Cobra; Tipu gets bit by Cobra in Shri...

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Tipu asks about possession- Possession and Greed
Tipu was in Bangalore
Conference in Los Angeles ‘Climate and Apocalyps...

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Cinta talk in conference- Venice, Ghetto ‘Island within Island’ and its history.
Bonduki Sadagar not ‘The Gun Merchant’...

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They were expelled due to fire; Great fire of Istanbul in 1660.
Cinta outlines the story historically.
Promise Cinta to...

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The panel and saw it could be manasa Devi creature and a story. (Pg171)
Forcibly sent Dino.
Dino gets a call from Gisa....

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Fozlul Hoque Chowdhury/ Palash.
Queerini Stampalio Library
Talked to Gisa about Lubna hiring a boat to Blue boat.
Cinta...

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Decided to join Lubna to rescue bluboat, hired boat was at Maghera.
Island of Chains- Shikol dwip- Sicily; where refuge...

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“Tipu’s safe at last!”
Navy admiral Admiral Vigonovo being interviewed for going against the orders.
Cinta Dies; she th...

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Climate related migration and displacement… change change is uncanny, disoriented. So to write
about it today is to wri...

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Cover Page

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Designed by Nirupa Rao, The botanical artist, Bengaluru.
www.nirupa-rao.com
“Since the novel is set in the Sundarbans, ...

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Learning outcome:
● ‘Don’t set yourself up to fail, yet again.’
● ‘Do you think that people elsewhere don’t believe in ...

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Themes

1] Title - ‘Gun Island’
~ In the title, the word ‘Gun’ stands for ‘Venice’.
‘And through Arabic the name of Venice has tra...

3] Ghetto
~The word ‘Ghetto’ is not related to Jews but used for an ‘Island within an
Island’ in the novel.
‘The old ghett...

4] Bhoot
~ Usually it means ‘Ghost’.
~ In novel it means ‘Past state of being’.
~ Bhoot also stands for memory.
‘All I can...

5] Possession -
~ ‘Possession is when someone is taken over by a demon.’
~ ‘It’s nothing. Just a metaphor for greed. An im...

~ There are many myths and names of place are mentioned in the novel that are also existing in reality. Like
Sundarban, Ve...

~ The Myth is history, not an imaginary thing.
~ The novel might talking about 17th century because it has a references of...

~ ‘Gun Island’ written after the book ‘The Great
Derangement : Climate Change and the Unthinkable’
By Amitav Ghosh.
~ ‘Gun...

~ Section - 2 is about History. Role of colonialism in climate crisis.
~ Colonial idea of development and climate change.
...

Corpus
1. Flood
2. Storm
3. Cyclone - Aila and Bhola
4. Calamities
5. Drought
6. Reforestation
7. Famine
8. Plague
9. Smok...

Migration / Human Trafficking and Refugee Crisis
~ There are three major reasons of migration of people.
1 - War and natur...

Reasons of Migration
1- Natural Calamities - Lubna - Khala
~ cyclone and shifting.
~ snakebite and two deaths. (Brother, N...

‘One day there was a fight. My uncle and cousins attacked my father and
me, so Kabir came to our defence and knocked my un...

4 - Socio - Economic conditions - Palash
~ Palash migrated to Italy as a student.
~ Wealth, education and opportunities ar...

Learning Outcome
1- Myth is history.
2- Travelling is beneficial for personal development.
3 - Nature is a reflection of h...

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Articles

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From The Sundarbans to Italy: Ecocritical Concerns in The Hungry Tide and
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh Dr.Pranav D. Khoch...

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Gun Island: A Tale of Myth, Migration and Climate Change
Ashna Francis
This paper attempts to explore how the notion of...

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Planetary Los Angeles: Climate Realism and Transnational Narrative
in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019) Edwin Gilson
Thi...

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The Crisis of Climate and Immigration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Trina Bose, Amrita Satapathy
The paper focuses on th...

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India Immigration Statistics

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Gun Island: Not a Fiction but a Prediction
Dr. Panchal Dnyaneshwar Anantrao
Gun Island, he wrote - predicted on the wil...

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Learning Outcome
Through the reading of the articles, I came to know about the Five different
perspective of novel, fir...

Works Cited
Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island. Chicago Humanities Festival, 2020,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsj_lstkBs. Acce...

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Barad, Dilip. “Gun Island (Sem 4-2022).” YouTube, 19 February 2022,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSmZQVxjN9_i...

Dnyaneshwar, Dr. Panchal Anantrao. “Gun Island: Not a Fiction but a Prediction.” vol. 9, no. 2, February 2021.
Elkan, Mich...

Iyengar, Vidya. “B’luru artist illustrates Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel.” The New Indian Express, 24 June 2019,
https://www...

Khoche, Pranav. “From The Sundarbans to Italy: Ecocritical Concerns in The Hungry Tide and Gun Island by Amitav
Ghosh.” Fr...

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