چکیده (انگلیسی):

Nation has been considered as a form of “restrictively imagined collectivities” (Anderson 147) by Amitav
Ghosh in “A Correspondence onProvincializing Europe” that creates hindrances in writing about the individual
identity. This makes several writers deal with family centered novels and their conflicts. They find away out
from discussing the concept of nation by dealing with families in their works. Amitav Ghosh is one such
writer who has displaced himself from bringing in the concept of nation in his 2001 Frankfurt International eBook Award winning novel, The Glass Palace. Ghosh has brought in the lives of a few individuals linked in
families and their experiences under one umbrella. Moreover, he makes those individuals search for a space
that moves them away from the confinement of nation. This historical novel has portrayed the strugglesfaced
by the people during the fall of the Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay. Through these imaginary characters,
Ghosh has displaced the notion of nation and has paved prominence to the family ties that revolve around
their own inner conflicts which have a different imaginary concreteness from that of other countries like
Europe and America.