Between the Homeland and Diaspora: Identity Dilemma in Indian Literature

The article aims to analytically and comparatively examine how the negotiation of identity is represented in Indian literature, both homeland abroad, a situation where cultures meet, collide, merge. focus will be on four books: Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger (2008), Bapsi Sidwa’s Water (2006), Kiran Desai’s Inheritance Loss Bharathi Mukherjee’s Jasmine (1989). All authors write about from particular cultural context: Bengali community USA, Brahmins caste system, privileged less-privileged status individuals, hegemonic aspirations middle class that have taken form politics produce socio-cultural inequalities. Because complex social structure dominated by one aspect migrant experiences limitations placed society their identity, which can also critical determinant economic well-being thus affect formation. Accordingly, presumption utility protagonists, immigrants locals homeland, encompasses identity. Despite sense alienation, displacement, rootlessness, protagonists all novels I mentioned above manage carve out space belonging for themselves, it or despite social, political, obstacles.