Diaspora and Migration in Indian English Literature: A Study of Identity, Displacement, and Cultural Hybridity

The idea of Diaspora and migration has become a big issue in Indian English literature in general and in the process of globalisation, colonial history and transnational movements. Literary texts have been altered by the experiences of migration, in which identity, alienation, displacement, nostalgia and cultural hybridity come to the fore. The psychological and social aspects of migrant communities have been reflected by Indian writers in English. This paper explores the struggle and negotiation of people living outside of their homeland as illustrated in the works of diaspora literature. Selected works of Indian English Writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Bharati Mukherjee are discussed in terms of ideas of identity crisis, displacement and cultural hybridity. The research draws on postcolonial and diaspora theories to explore how the concept of home, identity and belonging has evolved in migrant experiences. The paper contends that diaspora literature opens up a space that is characterised by multiple identities and where cultural hybridity becomes a condition of modernity.