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In Bharati Makherjee’s fictions like Jasmine, The Holder of the World and Leave It To Me the protagonists struggle for real identity. The female protagonists begin their struggle as a Punjabi widow, British East India Company Man’s wife Hannah Easton, an adopted Eurasian from New York Devi Dee do not want to be satisfied with what they are. The protagonists neither remain stead fast to the past nor they are away from it. It is found that the past will have a strong hold on the future of the protagonists. With multiethnic background the novels are also categorised as a woman’s struggle in search of identity. When Jasmine raises against patriarchal society to build her identity, Hannah translates herself creating an uniqueness. Devi Dee, unable to with stand the pull of the past, not satisfied with the happy present re-examines here past. Mukherjee provides various forms of empowerment and eventual liberation to her heroines in dispersed situations. In a context of dissolving boundaries Devi Dee’s quest for identity is unique and great.