A Different Ethnic Cleansing as Portrayed in Sujatha Bhatt’s ‘A Different History’

Abstract : The world has a renowned history of witnessing thousands and thousands of people being killed to establish the superiority of race and ethnicity. There have also been battles to establish superiority over geographical boundaries. The repercussions these battles have brought are humongous. They have partially or completely altered the traditions and customs of the defeated sect. This kind of a forced transformation is happening from time immemorial. The major change in one’s culture and tradition is brought because of ethnic cleansing. The poem A Different History by Sujatha Bhatt high-lights a different history that was created without any reinforcement or threat or to be precise, it did not happen through the conventional ways. How could such a mammothian change be brought in a vast country like India? The article tries to explore it with Bhatt’s poem as a reference.