• Girisha D

This paper adopts V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur as a point of reference to analyse the socio-culturally marginalised position of the displaced but aspirational protagonist. The narrative focusses on the displaced people who are trying to survive and find their identity. The main character, Ganesh, represents a transplanted East Indian community that is in a capitalist colonial society and is spiritually stagnant due to being cut off from its roots. The lives of the East Indians in Trinidad are the main subject of the novel. The absence of socio-political reality hindered the marginalised from exercising political freedom and governing democratic societies after independence. This resulted in centuries of imperial domination over the region, shattering people’s intellectual, physical, and economic foundations.

identity, survival, postcolonial, marginalisation

"Contextualising Marginalisation and its Implications in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.406-413, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903P49.pdf

"Contextualising Marginalisation and its Implications in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp406-413, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903P49.pdf