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Postcolonialism is a buzzword in literary criticism that happens to be another refined and convincing term replacing traditional arena such as Commonwealth Literature or Third World Literature. The discourse emerged primarily as a reactionary force against colonizing European center. Several renowned critics have profusely contributed to Postcolonial Theory. It has been convincingly contended that from the well identified geographical locations around the world, which have been colonized during nineteenth and first half of twentieth century's, there has come up creative literature, particularly fiction, of resistance against and subversion of Imperialism. It is the voice of protest raised by the marginalized and quite often silenced indigenous cultures or identities. The writers from postcolonial societies have been chiefly preoccupied with opposition of Euro-centric hegemonic power structure, and simultaneously they assert and celebrate their ethnicity, indigenous culture, myths, rituals, oral traditions and political identity. Their visionary actions and creative expressions essentially employ the tools of historiography. Though, in case of India, the British colonizers have denigrated Indian people as inferior community of illiterate, imbecile, superstitious snake-charmers and barbaric duckaits and usurpers of small kingdoms. As a sort of response to the White man's so-called burden to civilize the Other, Indian fiction writers take up the themes of Vasudhaiva kutumbakam, pluralism, heterogeneity, multiculturalism from their socio-cultural systems and philosophical and spiritual heritage, so as to show a more authentic counterview of nature of life on the planet. The vast body of Indian English Fiction contains, in the beginning, the topics of cultural reclamation, and at the present globalisation and peaceful coexistence.