How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
As we got out of the car I heard the cop say loudly, The gora speaks Hindi? Bhagwan save us from foreigners! (2.9.130)
Nobody expects Lin to speak Hindi, because they usually take him for a tourist who's just in Bombay to see the sights and head home after a couple weeks. His adopting the local language is part of accepting that he is exiled, unable to return home, and must make his home from scratch.
Quote #8
Feared and shunned, the lepers formed themselves into mobile slums that settled, within an hour, in any open space they could find, and made a traceless departure in even less time. (2.10.98)
The lepers are even more exiled than the foreigners who come to live in Bombay, because they are unable to really ever settle anywhere. They are outcasts, and their disease causes so much fear and revulsion that, no matter where they go, they will soon be exiled.
Quote #9
They were all, we were all, strangers to the city. None of us was born there. All of us were refugees, survivors, pitched up on the shores of the island city. If there was a bond between us, it was the bond of exiles, the kinship of the lost, the lonely, and the dispossessed. (2.16.129)
Nobody belongs in Bombay so, in a way, everybody belongs in Bombay. Here we see that exile provides a figurative common ground, bringing the cast-offs together through the bond of shared experience.