Marginalization of Sundarbans’ Marichjhapi: Ecocriticism Approaches in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Deep Halder’s Blood Island

The article identifies the Sundarbans landscape as a ‘marginal scape’ in context of Marichjhapi Massacre 1979. It applies conservationist vs. environmental (in)justice approach ecocriticism to Amitava Ghosh’s Hungry Tide and Deep Halder’s Blood Island: An Oral History Massacre. relates idea discrimination injustice based on caste misallocation ‘Commons’. For Dalit Refugees, its ecological attributes become an essential medium reconstructing their layered identity after migrating from Bangladesh Sundarbans, which becomes marginalized. paper argues that management resources/landscapes has always been hands rich, entwined with Brahminical hegemony, who try impose political geography over systems suppress dispossessed. concludes by comprehending any justice-based (here, social environmental) still favours non-human beings ends up causing multi-layered crisis for marginalized human populations.