A Post-Colonial Study of Memory, Displacement and Home in the novels of Salman Rushdie and V.S.Naipaul.

This dissertation, titled ‘A Post-Colonial Study of Memory, Displacement and Home in the novels of Salman Rushdie and V.S Naipaul’ is an attempt to understand the traumas, the feeling of homelessness and the problems of displacement faced by Indians during and after colonialism. This study emerged from a desire to understand how to of the most alarming voices in contemporary literature, Salman Rushdie and V.S Naipaul, navigate fragments to reconstruct asenseofself.Thisworknotmerelycomparethework of these two men, rather it interrogates the mechanics of belonging, exploration of memory and displacement in the country. Thisstudyprovidesabridgebetweenthesetwoauthorsvoicesoffearingaclearer view of the “third space”, that post-colonial subjects inhabit.