Communal clash and unemployment in Colonial India made a large number of people migrate to British East Africa. Indian immigrants formed an ethnic group in British East Africa and showed their loyalty towards the British government. These Indian immigrants thought that East Africa would never get independence from the British. They could not accept the nationalisation of Africa. Decolonisation worried Indian immigrants in East Africa. The life of Indian immigrants in independent Africa is threatened. The native Africans started to see Indian immigrants as one of their exploiter classes. This thought of native Africans made Indian immigrants to migrate once again to America or to Canada. M. G. Vassanji’s novel focuses on the lives of Indian immigrants which is filled with nostalgia, belongingness, alienation, identity crisis and double displacement. The In-Between world of Vikram Lall centres on the life of Vikram. The novel explores the diasporic elements through the narrative of Vikram Lall. This paper aims to highlight the diasporic sensibilities in the novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.

Nostalgia, Alienation, Double displacement, identity crisis, belonging