The article explores and evaluates the major themes and narrative techniques in Kiran Desai's Man Booker Prize?winning novel The Inheritance of Loss. It examines the novel against the backdrop of globalization, diaspora, cultural displacement, and socio-political change. The study focuses on issues such as alienation, marginalization, identity crisis, hybridity, immigration, racial discrimination, poverty, insurgency, and multiculturalism. Through characters like Jemubhai Patel and Biju, the novel portrays the psychological trauma of migration, the dark side of globalization, and the sense of unbelonging experienced by both elite and subaltern diasporic subjects. The paper highlights Desai's realistic portrayal of socio-cultural transitions in India and the West, emphasizing how globalization intensifies inequality, cultural conflict, and identity loss while questioning escapism as a solution.
Research Scholar, P. G. Department of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
