A British Became an Indian Assimilated View in Barati Mukerjee’s novel :The Tree Bride

Abstract

The Tree Bride is one of the famous novels of Bharati Mukherjee. She is an Indian-born American novelist and Diaspora writer. Her most of the novels deal with Diasporic and immigrant concept. Jasmine, Wife and Leave it to me are the best example of diasporic and immigrant experience. The Tree Bride is sequel to Desirable Daughters and it revolves around the story of British India and its colonizer. Tara Lata is the protagonist of The Tree Bride as well as the other two novels of BharatiMukerjee. John Mist is an important character in this novel, an immigrant from England to India, later he has assimilated into Indian. He is completely submissive to Indian culture, tradition, clothing, language. Tara Chatterjee is the narrator and protagonist of the novel, enquired about her ancestor Tara Ganguly and found the life of John Mist through his diary. John Mist has come to India as the British ruler later he has been changed into Indian. This paper revolves around, how a British ruler John Mist has changed and fought for Indians. He sacrificed his life for Mistigunj. It is named after him. John Mist is completely dislocated from his native.
The aim of the paper is to analyze Tara Lata, the heroine of the novel, who got assimilated in her own country itself. Being Tree Bride of Mistigunj supposes to be at home only, but she is the women of more power and brave and participated in Indian freedom movement. The valuable jewels of Tara have been buried in the forest for many years, later she gave it to Gandhian non-violence movement. It visualizes the transformation of orthodoxed Brahmin woman( tree bride ) into freedom fighter.

Keywords; Assimilation, immigrant, dislocation, Relocation, realization, colonization, migration, diasporic, expatriate