Immigration Dreams, Gender Struggles, and Disillusionment in the Cosmopolitan Spaces of The Empress by Tanika Gupta

In The Empress, the British female playwright Tanika Gupta describes the immigrant experience in Cosmopolitan London. Through the narratives of the main protagonists Abdul Karim and Rani Das, the play puts forward the cultural exchange between Indian and English subjects. It depicts both the difficulties and opportunities encountered by these characters as a result of cultural exchange and integration. This study aims to show how cosmopolitanism shapes and is shaped by the immigrant experience, revealing both the advantages and disadvantages of multicultural interactions. Homi Bhabha’s (1994) postcolonial concepts will serve as a theoretical basis for this analysis.