A PEOPLE'S WRITER AND HIS MARGINALITY: A STUDY OF MARGINALIZED SELF IN NAIPAUL’S TRAVELOGUES (Pages 20-26) by Dr. Gaurav Deep in THE ENGLISH INDIA / ISSN: 2321-1172 (Online); 2347-2634 (Print)

VS. Naipaul has always been a traveller. His forefathers were from India, he was born and brought up in Trinidad and he has spent the major part of his professional career in England. His global liaisons and experiences make him a truly cosmopolitan writer. His Indian connections make him an insider as well as outsider at the same time. Romanticizing a people’s lay of the land has never been Naipaul’s style of writing. He sees with microscopic view and expresses exactly what he sees or feels. He has visited India many a times to explore his roots and has written three valuable travelogues on the predicament of the country of his ancestors. The paper attempts to explore the marginality of a noble laureate’s existence and how his marginalized self reflects in his travelogues.S. Naipaul has always been a traveller. His forefathers were from India, he was born and brought up in Trinidad and he has spent the major part of his professional career in England. His global liaisons and experiences make him a truly cosmopolitan writer. His Indian connections make him an insider as well as outsider at the same time. Romanticizing a people’s lay of the land has never been Naipaul’s style of writing. He sees with microscopic view and expresses exactly what he sees or feels. He has visited India many a times to explore his roots and has written three valuable travelogues on the predicament of the country of his ancestors. The paper attempts to explore the marginality of a noble laureate’s existence and how his marginalized self reflects in his travelogues.Keywords: Travelogue, postcolonial, expatriate sensibility, marginalized self, Hinduism, disappointment.