Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author and novelist. Her novel portrays the political and historical consciousness along with known for his works in English language. His writings are unique and contributed a lot to Indian writing in English.Amitav Ghoshsecond novel The Shadow Lines (1988) presents the theme on nationalism, freedom, violence, memory and conflict between reality and illusion. In this novel refers to the blurred lines between nations, land and families as well as within one’s own self-identity. This paper examines, the shadow lines is not a history of events, nor is it a lesson in geography, yet the places and people are presented in coordination with subtle interplay of reality and illusion. Tridib is an protagonist of the novel and also he was an Archaeologist who has to stretch his imagination with the help of what is discovered in excavations to rebuild not only the decayed structures of the past but also the extinct civilizations, though he has Bartholomew’s Atlas to keep his feet of the hard ground of reality.