![]() ![]() Attempts to curb tiger attacks have been overwhelmingly unsuccessful, and as many as fifty people still die every year. As Nirmal and Piya both notice and mention in the novel, the Sundarbans suffer ecologically from farming, overfishing, and poaching of native species. Though the true death count remains unknown, it's possible that up to a thousand people were killed after being brutalized by the police. After several months of blockades and violent police action, the Indian government began to forcibly evacuate the refugees in May 1979. About 40,000 refugees then marched south and settled on the island Morichjhãpi in the Sundarbans, which was protected forestland. ![]() The refugees attempted to settle in West Bengal in 1978, but the new Left Front government declared that the refugees couldn't be considered citizens of West Bengal. During partition, a number of poor Hindu people attempting to enter India from East Pakistan were settled in a refugee camp in central India, rather than allowed to settle in the Indian state of West Bengal. ![]() The 1979 Morichjhãpi massacre was a consequence of the partition of the colony of British India in 1947. He was successful in developing a cooperative estate on the Sundarbans island of Gosaba, though the estate fell apart after Hamilton's death in 1939. Sir Daniel Hamilton was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1859. Although the island of Lusibari is a fictional place, many of the historical events that the novel mentions actually happened. ![]()
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