Human Identities and Transculturalism in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss is replete with problems of human identities and the frustrations, associated with postcolonial impact and its aftermath. In the age of globalization, when the world is striving to work together hand in hand, there wander souls deprived of their labour and loyalty and suffering in the land where they had served and worked all throughout their lives. They are the Gorkhas, whose rights and bindings to the land where they had served since pre-independence have been denied and thwarted. Gyan, the Nepali tutor of Sai, and his ancestors represent the loyalty of the Gorkhas to the Imperial Army and their rightful hold in the Indian mainland. Gyan’s forefathers had left Nepal to work on tea plantations.