www.ijellh.com 144 Cultural Archetypes in the works of Rohinton Mistry Nishtha Mishra Research Scholar Department of English and M.E.L University of Allahabad India The present research paper attempts to explore the archetypical elements in the works of Indo-Canadian author Rohinton Mistry. As a member of a racial minority, Rohinton Mistry‘s work strive to put forward the lives, beliefs, culture and practices of his community, whose members are now limited to a few. The Parsee community stands tall in terms of cultural and racial preservation against the storms and sands of time. With hardly any significant number of inter-caste marriage associations, this race is considered to be one of the purest among the lot. Genetic Studies over the past years have shown that the purity of their lineage is still maintained. As such they are still as closer to their forefathers as they were in 7th Century before migration. Their racial closeness to the human beings several centuries back proves cultural preservation over time and space. Thus, the cultural archetypes transferred from generation to generation through unconscious effort of collective unconscious, invariably find manifestation in the literature from this community. Archetypal figures and myths can be easily traced in the works of Rohinton Mistry. In a sense, an obvious result of preservation of culture is preservation of these cultural archetypes. And this will constitute the subject matter of the present study. The word culture has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food. For a biologist, it is likely to be a colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory Petri dish. However, for anthropologists and other behavioural scientists, culture is the full range of learned human behaviour patterns. The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English