The Fragmented Anglo-Indian Identity: A Select Study of Stephen Alter and Manohar Malgonkar's Works
Author : Pratibha Singh
Abstract :
This paper attempts to study the discourses of Anglo-Indians and their identity crisis in the select works of Stephen Alter and Manohar Malgonkar. The Anglo-Indians found themselves in a difficult situation after the departure of the British from India. Even after getting legal status from the government of India, they found themselves caught between the desire for assimilation and identification with the culture and nationality of their fathers. The Anglo-Indians remained at the bottom of the concerns of both colonisers and the colonized. This led the Anglo-Indians to face the problem of identity. The questions of whom they belong to and how they can recognise themselves are some of the series of posed questions left for them when they were betrayed both by the British and mistrusted by fellow Indians. The objective of this paper is to explore and exaggerate the factors affecting the issues of identity, rootlessness, and homelessness.
Keywords :
Home, identity, rootlessness, homelessness
