www.TLHjournal.com Literary Herald ISSN: 2454-3365 An International Refereed/Peer-reviewed English e-Journal Impact Factor: 6.292 (SJIF) Vol. 9, Issue 6 (April 2024) Page 156 Dr. Siddhartha Sharma Editor-in-Chief Inextricability of Colonialism, Imperialism, Racism, Modernity, Climate Crisis, and Climate Migration Since the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parable for a Planet in Crisis Sahabuddin Ahamed PhD Research Scholar Department of English and Foreign Language Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (Central University) C.G., India Abstract This essay critically analyses the processes of Western colonization‟s conquest, exploitation, and accumulation of both humans and nature and the resultant planetary climate crisis events that happened in the past and are happening at present around the world represented by some parallel narratives in Amitav Ghosh‟s work of non-fiction, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parable for a Planet in Crisis (2021). It explores how colonization and its brutality is implemented through the dominant Eurocentric ideology, the legitimacy of colonial domination over indigenous people and environmental exploitation, and through the pursuit of materialistic life, leading to the planetary crisis. It aims at unfolding the power of the natural forces and the motives behind the elimination of indigenous people and their culture, and the causes of climate crisis. The paper also explores how Ghosh attempts to arouse an eco-consciousness in the readers and offer the ways to protect the planet. The postcolonial ecological approach is used in the paper. Keywords: Colonialism, nutmeg, Banda islands, climate crisis, migration, uncanny Introduction After visiting the Banda islands in 2016, Amitav Ghosh began to write this non- fiction work amidst coronavirus in 2020. He lived in Brooklyn amid Covid-19 pandemic. When New York was hard-hit by corona pandemic, he perceived the need to write this book to reveal the certain visible aspect of planetary climate crisis when the whole world was battling the coronavirus. He found that it is the power of the invisible nonhuman entity that intervenes in our everyday lives and transform the meaning of our dominant worldview, reality and everyday happenings. To him the story of the seventeenth century Banda islands is relevant to the present crisis during Covid 19 coronavirus. He searched internet and archive and found some pdf data, beginning to read and later writing this work. He searched seventeenth century Dutch words and their modern meanings and translations. He began to write after reading Van der Chrijs‟ source twenty-first century. The narrative goes back to the seventeenth century. He relates the fate of the Bandanese people to the fate of the people of the present world. Writing against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic and the Black Lives