ABSTRACT

Conservation of nature and resolving the environmental issues are the burning topics that levitate the world nowadays irrespective of any discipline. Ecological criticism or Ecocriticism is a recent interdisciplinary field in literary and cultural studies associated with a desire to investigate and remedy the current environmental problems. Ecocritics believe that in order to ensure a healthy environment for future generations, human beings need to change their relationship with nature. They need to regard nature as alive and articulate. Amitav Ghosh is one of the few Indian writers in English who constructs nature in his works. The Glass Palace, published in 2000 is the fourth novel of Amitav Ghosh. The novel gives a flash back of the colonial period to show the social, cultural, economic and ecological devastation done by European intervention in south Asia. The paper focuses on the animistic reflexes adopted by Ghosh in his description of nature in the novel. He portrays nature as living entity that binds human beings to the non-human world with words of understanding, respect, admiration, love, wonder and awe.