Mukt Shabd Journal ISSN NO : 2347-3150 The Sundarbans Society and Culture from Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide V.VEDIYAPPAN PhD Research Scholar Thiruvalluvar University Serkkadu, Vellore- 632115. Tamil Nadu Abstract: The novel The Hungry Tide offers profound social expressions and through these the novelist investigates the progressions that have come and are coming into society. Ghosh being an anthropologist uncovers the syncretist culture that existed and still exists in India by delving into revere designs that shows social absorptions prompting a sort of solidarity of social ethos. This is being smothered or tossed out of spotlight by a developing society of savagery against ethnic gatherings over the country. The novel likewise has various key women characters who offer voice to a positive feminist build which is a genuine impression of the progressions occurring in the general public. Nilima, Piyali, kusum and Moyna are a piece of a feminist cultural build through which Ghosh makes significant statements. The women introduced in The Hungry Tide are strong women for whom articulating their standards and trying them is a triumph that has been won. Projection of search sort of feminist culture is additionally a genuine picture of the changing qualities saw in the nation and right now gives a decent knowledge into the cultural changes occurring in the society and the cultural effect of such kind of women. Keywords : Society, Culture, Life, and Nature. Great literature is said to show specialty and masterful and has the ability to bring up issues, give new perspectives, and grow the comprehension of self and the world, stimulate and imagination and renew the spirit. To us literature is any creative, accurate, and imaginative work about people and what they have done, accept and have made or are happy to make. literature is different of: written in books, journals, newspapers, and magazines: spoken; acted; sung; filmed; drawn as animation or appeared on TV. literature ought depict the side of human exercises as Volume IX, Issue IV, APRIL/2020 Page No : 3813 Mukt Shabd Journal ISSN NO : 2347-3150 well as the negative results with the view to laud an inversion to improve things. This infers a fair portrayal of the real factors of human existence. Literature can be experienced through an assortment of media: oral, audio, audiovisual, etc. It is a declaration of culture since it reports human information, conviction and conduct. Like literature, culture is a challenged marvel which is comprehended to mean extraordinary things by various gatherings. Culture is the "incorporated example of human conviction and conduct. ”Culture embodies language, thoughts, convictions, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, centerpieces, ceremonies. Culture comprises of shared qualities, convictions, knowledge, aptitudes and practices that support conduct by individuals from a social gathering at a specific point in time. Raymond Williams in his book Culture and Society(1958) stated that “Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact. Every human society has its own shape, its own purpose, its own meaning. Every human society expresses these, in institutions, and in arts and learning. A culture has two aspects: the known meanings and directions, which its members are trained to; the new observations and meanings, which are offered and tested. These are the ordinary processes of human societies and human minds, and we see them through the nature of a culture: that is always both traditional and creative; that is the both the most ordinary common meanings and the finest individual meanings. Culture is ordinary, in every society and in every mind.” A general public is a gathering of individuals identified with one another through their persistent and continuous relations. It is likewise a gathering of similarly invested individuals to a great extent represented by their own standards and qualities. Human culture, it is watched, is portrayed by the examples of connection between people who offer societies, customs, convictions and qualities and so on. Literature and society are firmly identified with one another since literature is the reflection of society. In some cases literature and society rouse and even impact to one another. The vague, liquid space, Ghosh decides to arrange his novel The Hungry Tide is the Sundarbans, where land and ocean continually respect each other in an every day natural cycle. The novel is published in 2004. Ghosh superbly concentrates an amplifying focal point on a smaller scale culture inside the Sundarbans or the tide nation the islets of the Ganges delta that lie south of Kolkata and east of West Bengal/Bangladesh boondocks. This delta traversing 335 Volume IX, Issue IV, APRIL/2020 Page No : 3814 Mukt Shabd Journal ISSN NO : 2347-3150 km in width is the biggest mangrove timberland on the planet at the mouth of Ganges and is spread across regions of Bangladesh and West Bengal. It is converged by an unpredictable system of tidal conduits, mudflats and little islands of salt-tolerant mangrove woods. It is a spot wherein the ocean, the river, the land, humans and creatures all exist together. This concurrence is here and there in concordance, yet frequently in rivalry. On a land which is so unstable and unusual, the Sundarbans. the excellence as the name of the timberland proposes, accompanies its dangers and perils. It is a characteristic territory of many jeopardized species including the Royal Bengal tiger and the Irawaddy dolphins and is the home of the mangrove woods or sundari trees. Ghosh subtleties the biological system of the Sundarbans with its assortment and magnificence. Unmistakably the change is the standard of life there. The waterways stray from week to week and islands are made and unmade. The Hungry Tide on its broadest level, is an anecdote about the Sundarbans themselves, the sort that causes us comprehend the intriguing and delicate biology of what in the novel is called" the tide nation," just as well as the pivotal significance of this region‟s proceeded existence. This concern is obviously dear to Ghosh‟s heart, as he stacks the pages of his novel with logical and specialized insights concerning the biological system of the Sundarbans as if he were looking to both paint and classify their working. The novel is additionally, be that as it may, a tale about natural and social foul play in a postcolonial space, about individuals slaughtered or compellingly expelled from what they think about their homes on the grounds of a questionable ecological arrangement. The West Bengal Left Front government‟s 1979 massacre of "illegal" pioneers on the island of Morichjhap on the putative grounds of ecological protection had its origins in the partition of India in 1947 and was fuelled by national and international funding for the conservation efforts of Project Tiger (still today one of the most successful wildlife preservation projects ever). A significant piece of The Hungry Tide is devoted to the story of this ousting, the memory of which, as Ghosh puts it, in an article called "Folly in the Sundarbans," "although forgotten elsewhere, in the Sundarbans . is still vividly alive." We watch the Sundarbans with Piyali Roy an Indian brought into the world American Cetologist and Kannai the chief of a Translation Bureau in New Delhi. Piyali has gone to the Sundarbans to do her PhD on the Irrawaddy Dolphins. Kannai needs to get a diary Volume IX, Issue IV, APRIL/2020 Page No : 3815 Mukt Shabd Journal ISSN NO : 2347-3150 composed by his uncle Nirmal who is no more. The historical backdrop of the Islands is told through Nirmal‟s Journal. The peruser comes to know in insight concerning the catastrophe of Morichjhapi where the administration had slaughtered a great many exiles in their endeavor to remove them. Piya warms up to Forkir, a man of the Sundarbans and through this relationship the creator considers the Bon-bibi legend and the religio-social qualities. When Fokir passes on Piya doesn't come back to the U.S however chooses to make the Sundarbans her home. So the idea of home as a social topical element is investigated in the novel. The individuals of Sunderbans follows all the ceremonies and conventions of their ancestors. In any case, they have been double-crossed strategically and monetarily which caused the investigation of the development of the inborn culture of the Sundarbans and which is syncretistic in nature binding together individuals of different convictions together. This syncretist culture depends on the Bon-Bibi fantasy. The creation of the nearby culture of the Sundarbans is through the development if a syncrestic culture.Piya sees that Fokir appeals to Bon Bibi just as the Muslim Pir. The style of workship received by Fokir shows the converging of social rituals. It has been brought up by Nilanjan Chakravarthy that this blending has occurred as a result of the troublesome landscape yet in addition in view of recorded custom. Both the networks existing next to each other have streamed into each other.Thus Bon-Bibi develops as a defensive goddess for both the networks. Dokkin Rai the force that reigned in the Sundarbans did not care for the convergence of individuals into his domain and conjured Allah to drive them away. In Nirmal‟s journal surprise is registered at the way Horen worships in order to protect them from the Tigers: Kusum led the way to the shrine, which was nothing more than a raised platform with bamboo sides and a thatched covering. Here we placed the images of Bon Bibi and her brother Shah Jongoli, and the kusum lit a few sticks of fragrant dhoop and Fokir fetched some leaves and flowers and laid them at their feet. I was amazed. I’d thought I was going to a Hindu puja.