Longing for Cultural Identity in Khuwant Singh's Train to Pakistan

Abstract

This research has explored the cultural identity in Khuswant’s Singh’s Train to Pakistan. The central character is displaced from own culture but when defines his cultural existence into alien land where he feels gap between own and other's culture. Cultural pattern shapes human way of living that is internalized along with our socio- cultural location. By living with alien culture, he comes to know meaning of culture. He experiences cultural gap between own culture and another culture then it defines cultural values. Iqbal retrieves his cultural position and identity into own culture. Thus, Iqbal quest of cultural identity leads the research work.