Question

How does Amitav Ghosh portray the arbitrariness of national borders in The
Shadow Lines?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Amitav Ghosh 's "Shadow Lines" examines India's political and financial development from the lives of two families, the one Bengalis and the other English, as their lives interweave over 3 generations on many stages. The book consists of the recollection of the two families' protagonists.

Explanation:

• Arbitrariness means the quality of being based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.  
• Amitav Ghosh, explicitly illustrates the criticism of the idea of nation & nationalism by drawing delusional lines to unrealistically demarcate one space from another. The central idea of the novel thus illuminates the dark boundaries between nations and the devastation arising from the act itself.
• The narrator 's description of the Atlas and the use of the map of Bartholomew and a pair of compasses for the explicit explicit drawing of the globe illumine the alternative development of maps that 'weaken the forefront of nations as the main units on the world'
• Maps are designed to create a nation and, apart from the act of national formation, maps split or separate one nation. It thus adds to the imposition by removing all other characteristics of a imposed homogenized identity on persons within a given country as their national origin. The idea of cross-cultural cooperation is not celebrated by them. All this presumption of the nation and nationalism is exposed by Ghosh in Shadow Lines.
• All this presumption of the nation and nationalism is exposed by Ghosh in Shadow Lines. He would like to emphasize that the national lines are indeed shadowy or imaginary. One can cross across the "drawn boundaries" if not physically but mentally  to decrease the "constructed distance" or to celebrate the "cross-cultural relationship".

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