Harjit Atwal is an established writer of immigrant Punjabi literature. When any writer or literary man leaves his country and goes abroad, he takes with him an alien phenomenon. Fed up with such phenomena, Harjit Atwal reaches a developed country like England, when he tries to settle in another country, he has to deal with the socio-cultural conditions, economic and political conditions in the original country. Harjit Atwal living in exile sees and examines the problems faced by migrant Punjabis, the immigrant community that came from the east to the west. He was not aware of western values. Novelists migrated from Punjab to England in search of good economic conditions and after settling there permanently, they write novels. The characters of the novels presented by Harjit Atwal refer to their homeland- Vatani, Bhu-Herwa, Mitti Ra Moh, Paschim Dinch. They have to go through situations like problems, socio-cultural, problems, cross-cultural issues, breakup of relationships, then they enjoy bittersweet feelings while living in migration and Harjit Atwal gives literary form through his fictional vision.
This Research work consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, Parvasi Punjabi novel is a theoretical and historical perspective. It has discussed the types of migration, the life of immigrants, the problems of immigrants, the artistic interests of immigrants and the theoretical perspective and historical perspective of immigrants. Understanding the phenomenon of migration in the contemporary situation, it has discussed the outline of the migrant culture, modernization, globalization, outline of the concept of migration. The representative novels of immigrant novelists like Darshan Dhir, Swaran Chandan, Pritam Sidhu, Nadeem Parmar, Shivcharan Gill, Jarnail Sekha and Harjit Atwal etc. have been discussed.
In the second chapter the socio-cultural study methodology will be discussed from a theoretical perspective. In this case, cultural studies, social conditions, social organization, culture change, folklore, acculturation, cultural differences etc. will be analyzed. Through struggle, culture has been created on the society. There is an inseparable relationship between society and culture. Just as man cannot live without society, similarly society is incomplete without culture. If human existence is possible only in society, then culture can be created only in society. Socio-cultural studies is a type of study of society and the human behavior of the people who inhabit it.
The third chapter is a study of the object in Harjit Atwal’s novels which is related to the reality which is discrimination, geo-herva, generation-gap, cultural-crisis. In this research arrangement, One-Way, Sand, Southall, British Born Desi, Swari, Mundari dot com, Geet, novels have been the basis of the research study. In the context of the Immigrant Punjabi novel, determining the basic basis of generation gap, the difference in values, different working environment, difference in educational system and difference in culture, etc. have been focused on. , the problem of generation gap, land degradation, cultural crisis etc. present the changing form of the relationship between men and women. The old generation of immigrant Punjabi is the bearer of feudal values ​​and thinking, but the new generation is the product of foreign culture which has broken away from its roots. The old generation is attached to their inherited culture and consider it their duty to hand it over to their next generation, but the new generation has nothing to do with their parents, country and culture, nor do they accept it wholeheartedly.
Chapter 4 is a socio-cultural study of Harjit Atwal’s novels: One Way, Southall, Swari, Raet, British Born Desi, Sundari Dot Com, Geet. Various layers of problems, currents, conflicts, inter-cultural and cross-cultural issues in the novels. The fictionalization has been presented with great intensity. There is a big difference between Punjabi culture and foreign culture. Therefore, when a Punjabi immigrant enters a foreign environment, he cannot take the life test there because even while living in a foreign culture, he does not break away from his cultural heritage. When one culture comes in contact with another culture, the culture with material wealth always influences the other culture, but the culture being influenced does not immediately accept these influences at the symbolic level and an imbalance among the members of the population as soil.
Chapter five is Summary and Establishment, which is a study of migrant society The central issue of Parvasi Punjabi novel narrative is the influence of capitalist values ​​on human relationships. In the West, the dazzle of money has played a special role in alienating man from humanity. For a life that revolves around money, relationships become irrelevant. In the human relationships presented in Harjit Atwal’s novels, we do not see mental and emotional connection anywhere. Thus we see that selfish relationships are far removed from human concerns. By drawing the birth and development line of migrant Punjabi literature, brief information has been given about Harjit Atwal’s entire novels. The conclusion is that Harjit Atwal has proved his artistic talent by taking the complex problems and basic concerns of migrants as the subject and extremely Presented complex issues in brief words. Atwal has presented the economic condition of Punjabis in a concise manner. They got comforts and conveniences on a foreign land, but along with it, social relationships also broke down, in the race to earn money, relationships, culture, everything was left behind. The situation created in this awkward relationship affected the mentality of migrant Punjabis to such an extent that they got a wide experience of the hardships of life which has been expressed by the writer through his novels.
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