ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the novel, The Inheritance of Loss, written by Kiran Desai, grapples with diverse characters to represent multiple realities such as globalisation, multiculturalism, diaspora, racism and the like. This novel begins with Sai, a 16-year-old girl who lives with her grandfather, a Cambridge-educated retired judge settled in Kalimpong, a small town in the district of Darjeeling and bordering Bhutan. The Gorkha uprising in the 1980s was, in a way, violent under the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), led by Subhas Ghisingh, an ex-corporal in the army who had tried his hands at writing novels himself. In the main industries of the Darjeeling district, Nepalis constitute the vast majority of the workforce, but are almost wholly absent from the ownership or management of any concern. This explains why some readers from Kalim-pong reacted against the novel the way they did even if all of them did not belong to the Nepali community.
