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This article aims to analyze how cultural hybridity is enunciated in the novel The Fraud. It delineates the stories of Eliza Touchet and Andrew Bogle, who grapple with cross-cultural identity. Through their stories, the novel, sheds light on the complexities of cultural hybridity and the ongoing negotiation of identity and belonging. The researcher has made an inquest of hybridity through the perspectives of the protagonists who navigate the shifting terrain of identity and belonging in a rapidly changing world. Hybridity, as enacted in the novel is a cause for internal and external strife. Hence, the novel stands as a testament to the complexities of multicultural Britain. Thus, Smith sheds light on the ways on how cultural hybridity has always been a part of the human experience and how it continues to shape our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

Cultural hybridity, Post Colonial theory, identity, belonging and Multicultural Britain.