Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain (2022): An Interconnectivity between Colonialism and Climate Change

This paper examines Amitav Ghosh’s “The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times” to understand the interconnections between colonialism and climate change. Ghosh’s narrative explores the impacts of colonial expansion on the environment, revealing a historical continuity that links colonial practices with the contemporary climate crisis. By employing an ecocritical framework, the paper analyses how Ghosh critiques colonialism’s destructive impact on nature and challenges modern readers to reconsider the long-term environmental consequences of imperialist endeavours. The paper further delves into how the novella serves as a clarion call to rethink human relationships with nature and to advocate a symbiotic coexistence. Keywords: Amitav Ghosh, colonialism, postcolonial ecocriticism, ecological degradation, The Living Mountain.