Marginalization of Ethnic Community in The Inheritance of Loss

Abstract

The present research work analyses theissue of marginalization of ethnic communityin Kiran Desai’sThe Inheritance of Loss. People of Nepali speaking community have been residing in India since time immemorial. Thoughscattered all over India,they arereferred as Gorkhasandhave been treatedas second class citizens in their own country by mainstream Indian discourse.Theyare bracketedasan ethnic community and denied their fundamental rights and privileges. Thisthesisexplores how Desai toeing the dominant political discourse, represents the Nepali ethnic people as inferior, terrorist,like,illiterate and uncivilized, thus marginalizing them as the ‘other’in post colonial India