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The volume reflects the emergence of minority discourse related to the supressed people, Dalits in India and African Americans in the USA. Writers like Dharamveer Bharati, Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker have depicted the plight of the marginalised people and issued a call for justice, freedom and equality in society. Similarly, the literature of the Indian diaspora has gained significant ground in the burgeoning field of postcolonial literature in English. The writings of Indian-American authors including Chitra Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri and Shauna Singh Baldwin embody a rich minority discourse that has energised and enriched the corpus of Indian-American studies.