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Indian Class System in Kiran Desai’s Novel
The Inheritance of Loss

M. Suganya, M.Phil. English


Abstract

The Inheritance of Loss is about class discrimination. Biju immigrates to America. He suffers a lot in that country. Americans show their class discrimination in it. This novel articulates Indian class system clearly.

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss was published in early 2006. It won the 2006 Booker Prize. When talking of the characters in The Inheritance of Loss, and her own life, Kiran Desai says, “The characters of my story are entirely fictional, but these journeys as well as my own provided insight in to what it means to travel between East and West and it is this. I wanted to capture. The fact that I live this particular life is no accident. It was my Inheritance.” The Inheritance of Loss examines the intricacies of relationships in post-colonial India, England and the US.

The Inheritance of Loss is a book about the rigid class systems that exist in India and abroad amongst Indians, and the struggles that the people face within these classes after colonialism. The book takes place in a town called Kalimpong, which is near Darjeeling in the north-western most point in India. It begins in the high north eastern Himalayas in Kalimpong. Sai, a seventeen-year old girl. Her life with a judge, his dog and his cook. It is turbulent time, filled with dissatisfaction among the population of Indian Nepalese, who want to separate and have their own country apart from India. There is an insurgency to draw new borders that will create peace in theory. They are robbed by members of the Gorkhaland National Liberation Front, who take their food, liquor and guns.

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M. Suganya, M.Phil. English
Sri Adichunchanagiri Women’s College
Cumbum 625516
Tamilnadu
India
suganya.m5513@gmail.com

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