Diasporic Consciousness: A Study of Amit Chaudhuri's A New World

Diaspora is a displacement of a community or an individual from one geographical region to another geographical region. Either voluntary or forced such spatial movements from one's native land to the foreign land are very common during post-colonial and postmodern globalized period. Diaspora as an area of study got popularity and proliferation during the post 1990, prior to 1990 there was very little academic interest in the term and very few publications were associated with diasporic issues.Indian English fiction is repleted with several instances of diasporic issues where the artist makes an effective endeavor to present India's rich and varied culture, tradition and heritage while living in abroad.Writers like V.S. Naipaul, Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rusdie, Vikram Seth, AmitavGhosh, Vikram Chandra, Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, and Amit Chaudhuri have focalized on diasporic concerns and issues.The present paper is an attempt to study and analyze Amit Chaudhuri's fourth novel A New World under the perspective of diasporic issues such as rootlessness, identity crisis, nostalgia, homesickness, conflict between tradition and modernity etc.