In a country like India with diversified culture and social backdrop, syncretism with its delicate manure happens to be a significant phenomenon that has been given due emphasis by Nayantara Sahgal in her novel, Mistaken Identity. Sahgal has not only shown utmost concern for a united nation but has tried to bring to the foreground its crude limitations in a multicultural society. Sahgal’s prime focus has been for a unification of the humanistic values with the divergent features of various religions prevailed in this subcontinent through the character, Bhushan, the protagonist in the novel. This paper has tried to make a resilient attempt in exploring the unique racial and ethnic prospect replicating the exceptional irreligious and syncretic mosaic that yearns to prevail amidst the multicultural society of human habitation.