Volume VI Special Issue I January 2026

Name of Author : Ms. Chandni Rasikbhai Vasani, Dr. Manish Pandya

Title of the paper : Multicultural Dilemmas and Identity Formation in M.G. Vassanjis The In Between World of Vikram Lall

Abstract: The In Between World of Vikram Lall 2003 by M.G. Vassanji is a poignant study of postcolonial Kenyan multiculturalism. This paper is a purpose to explore how, in a postcolonial and colonial African world, the protagonist, Vikram Lall, a person of Indian Kenyan descent, embodies the challenges of navigating multiple cultural identifications Indian, British, and African and identity crisis and displacement. The challenges of belonging and exclusion in a multiracial Kenya are explored through the lens of Vikram Lalls life. Vikrams ultimate exile is a reflection of multicultural belongings failure and a display of the political and emotional cost of being in between. To explore how Vassanji disrupts the notion of multicultural peace and instead presents a splintered multicultural encounter shaped by colonial legacies and racial stratification the research invokes theories of hybridity and diaspora, especially those of Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall. This paper delves into the ways in which Vassanji uses the multicultural framework not as an embrace of diversity, but as contentious and frequently agonized negotiation of belonging, loyalty, and identity.

Keywords : Cultural conflict, Diaspora, Hybridity, Identity, Multiculturalism

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Page Number : 81-84