Published in Muse India Issue 62 The Conflict of Rights between Humans and the Non-humans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Dipanwita Pal Assistant Professor Galsi Mahavidyalaya Galsi, Burdwan, West Bengal Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) is a long river trip in search of Irrawaddy dolphin. But eventually it becomes a combination of travel, anthropology, ethnography, migration, landscape, and environmentalism. Ghosh here intertwines humanscape and landscape. Bhatir Desh (the tidal land) possesses the power to change the course of rivers and shape and reshape lands. Ghosh addresses an environmental issue of the conflict of conservation of natural world and the human rights in his novel. Sundarbans is the home to many endangered species like the Royal Bengal Tiger and Irrawaddy dolphins. It is also the home for the trouble between the human and the non-human for space. On one hand, there are the dispossessed people of the tidal land. On the other hand is the non- human world with their rights for survival. The relation between the human settlers and the predators is exquisitely expressed in the myth of Bon Bibi, the tiger goddess. And the role of the government in protecting the environment is mocked in the episode of Piya’s encounter with the forest guard. In this paper I propose to address this conflict of rights and find a way out to settle the issue of preference, focusing on the very pertinent