Analysis Of The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga

INTRODUCTION

The caste system of India assigns individuals a certain hierarchical status as per the Hindu beliefs. The word ‘Dalit’ comes from the sanskrit word ‘Dal’ which means broken, oppressed, downtrodden. Dalit were previously known as Untouchables, Harijans and depressed classes, Dalit refers to one’s caste rather than class, it refers to those people who were born as Untouchable because of their extreme impurity connected with their traditional jobs. They are outcasted from the four categories of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra classes and are physically, socially excluded from the rest of the society. In India alone, there are around 167 Dalit as per the 2001 census.

The varnas or the caste system has their origins in ancient

At the time of his freelance period, Adiga wrote The White Tiger which became the most read novels of the modern times and is also prescribed in various colleges as a novel in their syllabus. Aravind Adiga currently lives in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra in India. His debut novel which is The White Tiger even won the 2008 Booker Prize. Adiga is the fourth Indian author to win the Booker prize which was after Salman Rushdie, even Arundhati Roy and also Kiran Desai.

Another winner V. S. Naipaul is again of Indian origin but he was not born in India. Well, the other five authors won this prize are the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh and also the first time writer named Steve Toltz. His novel The White Tiger studies the contrast between country India's rise as a modern global economy and also the lead character named Balram who is a Dalit and comes from crushing rural poverty and very low class. Adiga explained that criticisms by several writers like Balzac, Dickens and Flaubert of the 19th century also helped France and England become a better