Vol. 8, Issue 6, Part D (2022)

Abstract
V.S Naipaul through his novels brings out suppressed histories of immigrant workers from India. In his novel 'A House for Mr Biswas' he has lent the profundity to the wing clipped characters in a Caribbean backwater and granted them dignity. Recurring themes of the novel are the collision of cultures and the resultant ambiguities in human adjustment. Hence the novel acquires a three dimensional significance- historical, social and psychological, understanding Naipaul is at once a chronicler, historian and biographer. The present paper is an attempt to analyse, evaluate and elucidate the saga of Indian life in the Caribbean. The novel has a tinge of autobiography as it highlights Naipaul's father's struggle for survival in the garb of an immigrant's quest for identity, house, home and a sense of belonging amidst trauma of culture clash and rootlessness. The novel attains universal appeal as Mr Biswas is every man.