Migration is the movement of people from one place to another, either voluntary or involuntary aiming to settle in new location. Forced migrants in exile are significantly more vulnerable to identity change than any other social group (Bhugra, 2004, p.130). Migrant’s often experience continuous adaptive demands leading to identity-crisis due to socio-cultural difference. The paper investigates how forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1990s due to militancy have resulted in forming and reforming their identity as depicted in Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude. It examines the three stages of identity crisis experienced by the Kashmiri Pandits: 1. Hiding their identities during the volatile situation in 1990s Kashmir 2. Shedding of the home, culture, distinctive practise and their identity while severing their ties with the native land. 3. Facing the dilemma of cultural adaptation and identity maintenance in the host land post-migration. Identity-crisis positions them as a subaltern with no socio-economic agency and reflects their inability to generate discourse from that subaltern position. The paper explores Kashmiri Pandits trauma, as portrayed in The Garden of Solitude, whose search for their identities augments the desire to resettle in their homeland.