Postcolonial Women

The Holder of the World was published in 1993, deals with the story of a puritan woman named as Hannah Easton of seventeenth century. Later on she is known as ‘Salem Bibi’ an immigrant from America, who comes to India, absorbs herself in the Indian culture. Later on she becomes the mistress of Indian King Raja Singh Jadav. The novel also moves around the tale of the Emperor’s Tear, the diamond which Aurangzeb hung in his war tent and which was stolen by Salem Bibi , hidden in the dying womb of Bhagmati; companion of Salem Bibi. But history loses the diamond. In the mid of twentieth century Beigh Masters and her cyber friend Venn Iyer of MIT disclose the secret of the lost Diamond.
The present paper tries to explore the condition of Women

The term “Postcolonial literature’’ now replaces the traditional category of “Commonwealth literature’’ or “Third World literature.’’ There are several discourses of Postcolonial writings like: immigration, migration, feminization, marginalization, and dehumanization of native, quest for identity, pre-historic and post-historic evidences. This is an era of “globalizing spread’’ (Meenakshi Mukherjee 3). Postcolonialism is a vast project of decolonization of mind and spirit. Including all these terms only one word will be enough to say that is Diaspora. Diaspora is the prominent issue of the Postcolonial literature. Diasporic literature explores the procedure of adaptation, resistance, nostalgia, cultural displacement, rootlessness and belongingness.
Bharati Mukherjee is one of the renowned South Asian women novelists. As a Post-colonial writer she has written many extensive novels related to the problems women covering an extraordinary range of immigrant’s issues. Her novel The Holder of the World (1993) is a famous novel of cultural displacement, in which she has portrayed the picture of colonial India on the background of Mughal India. Through this novel she focuses upon the strategy of multiculturalism and

The story of The Holder of the World is assimilated with three cultures‒Christian, Muslim and Hindu. Hannah, a Christian says to Aurangzeb: “They are not Devgad people or Roopconda people, not Hindu people or Muslim people, not Sunni or Shia, priests or untouchables, servants or kings. If all is equal in the eyes of Brahma as the Hindu say, if Allah is all-seeing and all-merciful as you say, then who committed atrocities on the children, the women, and the old people? Who has poisoned the hearts of men?” (268) unfortunately, by their nature, birth and nourishment, three cultures do not join