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Bharati Mukherjee is okne okf the most significant contemporary novelists; her writings have received world-wide recognition . Her novels express the nomadic impulses of Indians who, in their deliberate search for a materially better life.migrate to the West and consequently face the tensions of adaptation and assimilation. Bharati Mukherjee is at her best in the depiction of cultural clash between the East and the West. She has indeed become a celebrity for her distinctive approach to expatriatehood as a metaphysical experience of exile. Her latest novel The Holder of the World reinforces expatriation as a journey of the human mind. The present study, the first of its kind on the novelist,makes a comprehensive attempt at evaluating various aspects of Mukherjee's fiction and her contribution to the study of cultures and modern fiction. About Author :R.K.Dhawan(Delhi University) is a Reader in English. He obtained M.Litt. In Comparative Litrerature and Ph. D. on the fiction of Joseph Conrad. In 1979, he visited Oxford University and other universities in the U.K. as a British Council scholar; during 1991-92 he participated in a symposium at Perth and visited other universities in Australia, He has lectured extensively at several universities,including those at Sri Lanka ,Bangladesh,Singapore and Australia. He has published several articles and books. He is the General Editor of The Commonwealth Review, a bi-annual journal devoted to the new literatures. Contents :IntroductionThe Tiger's DaughterWifeDarkness and The Middleman and Other StoriesJasmineThe Holder of the WorldCoutributorsIndex