An analysis of Indian social milieu in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Abstract

Aravind Adiga’s deut novel The White Tiger was published in 2008 and could achieve the 40th Man Booker Prize in 2008 only. His novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. The novel deals in issues like religion, caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India. The paper attempts to evaluate the prominent themes of the novel through which it hopes to make the writer’s intention clear to the reader.