Sea Of Poppies Essay

CHAPTER II SEA OF POPPIES

THEME In many Villages even after the civilized development of the industry leaders in term of how Capitalism is moving to the farmers for the development of their business. In the
Villages always men use women like a drugs. More their like slavers, girmitiyas, lascars,
Labours doing business abroad will be sent by ship. The Civilization is not only good dressing, living luxury and economical growth alone can see. Capitalism, female slavery, drugs production and growth of Civilization have not yet. It is the theme is Sea of Poppies. Sea of poppies -2008 was the Ghosh’s short

Even they donot know their native, their caste, and their religion. Now they consider ship is their home and see is their nation. Their speech is the combination of odd hybrid words, phrases and slang that have been picked up assimi, later over time from different places. Sea of poppies is anthropology, History and Fiction. It is an emotion record on how colonialism and opium trade damaged and also divided Indian Society. The East India Company’s Policy was obeying the opium cultivation on the part of rural folk and damages the native agriculture and trade. The rule of Company Bahadur spells waste in India’s Villages and towns. This is the back ground of the novel. The events and the unpleasant happen of the novel throw the Social, Political and Economic history of Colonial India. Sea of poppies is the story about the Poppy cultivation and effects of peasants. Then girmitiyas the contract labours, lascars, migrants were displaced. The displaced people story that the aspect of connect trade and commerce, a shameful chapter in British history. The Ship of the girmitiyas leads to displacement, dislocation and also loss of their identy and they are wanting to creat a new identy and diasporic

At Sea there is another Law, and you should know that on this vessel Am its sole maker. While you are on the Ibis And while she is at Sea, I am your fate, your Providence, your lawgiver…But remember, Always, there is no better keeper of the law Than submission and obedience. (p.404) The word girmit refers to the transportation of labour on the basis an agreement. It also refers to the indentured labour system common in the 19th century. Satis Rai uses the word girmit for “a group of Indian left the shore of India more than a century ago to fulfill labour needs of the British and other European colonial empire under the Indenture system”. Now the word girmit has become the popular currency. In the nineteenth century, the most human transport in the form of girmit began in the history of mankind. The unwanted the farmer slaves to work on the newly found islands. Such as Mauritius, Fiji, Trinid and Jamaica for the plantations created severe labour problems for the planters in the colonies. India also colonized by the British. So the Indians were explotted economically by the British through the practice and introduction of land tax