Adhikari, Atmaram2022-02-032022-02-032008https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/8026Naipaul’s In a Free Stateis a sequence of five works--two short journal extracts (the “Prologue” and the “Epilogue”), two short stories and a novella-linked by a common theme. All are about individuals stranded in foreign countries and confronted by alien cultures. So, the novel is a treatise on post-colonial studies and cultural identity formation. All the protagonists in the novel areplaced in a supposedly “free” state but, ironically, they are trapped in the context of a free world having lost their cultural identities.en-USFreedomFree stateThesis