In Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World, world-renowned scholars employ various aspects of Connor's work to explicate the recent upsurge of nationalism on a global scale. The paper concludes that forming the mythical tales in the Trilogy after the major Twenty-first century events in India and South Asia in particular and around the World in general, Tripathi has turned Hindu Mythology into a pertinent scripture of the Twenty-first century. To situate the text between the fictional retelling of Hindu mythology and Twenty-first century discourses of ethno-nationalism, counter-terrorism, ecocide, and posthumanism, the study follows the method of textual analysis from the perspective of New Historicism. The politics over the usage of Somras results in terrorism, counter-terrorism, war and atomic bombing. The trilogy is set in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization at the intersection of Iranian plateau and the South Asian peninsula around 1900 B.C and the plot revolves on 'Somras', a posthuman project of the Meluhan society, that leads to depletion of Saraswati river, seasonal plague in Branga region and physical deformation of Naga community.
The paper argues that Tripathi's treatment of mythology is more a frame of reference to contemporary issues of the Twenty-first century than a historical retelling. The trilogy is a euhemeristic treatment of the myths of God Shiva in the form of fiction. Amish Tripathi's Shiva Trilogy is a popular mythological fiction in India.
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