The socio-economic impact of river erosion in post-independence Bengali novels/ স্বাধীনতা-পরবর্তী বাংলা উপন্যাসে নদী-ভাঙনের আর্থ-সামাজিক প্রভাব

Abstract

The relationship of rivers with humans is eternal. Since the era of ancientcivilization, people have been worshipping riversas gods. They settledalong its banks and earned a living for themselves. Sometimes the river appeared as a blessing, and at times it flooded both the banks and destroyed villages. An amazing combinationof life running with the flow of the river. If we look at the history of Bengali novels, just as we find river-centric novels, we also come across the socio-economicalimpact of river erosion as the context of many novels. Although the interrelationship between rivers and people is observed in the novels of Bankim Chandra, Rabindranath or Kazi Abdul Odud, the story oferosion and braid bar-centric people have come up in the novels of Amarendra Ghosh, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Amiyabhusen Majumdar, Abdul Jabbar, SadhanChattopadhyay and Abul Bashar.