Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement 1. Introduction 2. In the labyrinth of identity: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 3. Struggle for survival: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 4. Breaking down the class barriers: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide 5. ‘The Have-Nots’ in the land of plenty: Kira.