Abstract

When man started to think and human endeavour on communication of his thoughts started, literature came into being. With time various genres and modes of literary thoughts emerged in the world. Literature tried to convey messages in a very creative way garnering audiences to understand real life emotions and behavioural patterns. In such a way the Indian novel the White Tiger by Arvind Adiga talks about the class and caste divisions in India and how it continues to impact social life in India even after almost six decades of independence. The novel portrays class and caste politics with how even though India being world’s largest democracy still lags at various aspects of democracy and liberty in real life. In this work I would like to analyse the novel White Tiger with respect to how it portrays the caste and class consciousness as well as how these elements plays a crucial role in India’s social setting at the backdrop of poverty and underdevelopment in the rural areas of our country.

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