LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Marxian and Neo-Marxian Materialistic Ideology in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Farooq Ahmad Sheikh

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, the Man Booker winning novel, presents s hard realistic and graphic picture in front of thousands of Indian readers. The book, in its realistic picture, presents the crude, dark and naked facts about India and takes our attention from one side where India is an emerging economic giant to another side, the dark side. Plot of the novel revolves round the protagonist Balram Halwai, a young man born and brought up in a remote village of Bihar. The protagonist narrates his story of life in the form of a letter to the Chinese Prime Minister who is on his visit to India on an official assignment. The letter begins by an introduction about the poverty of rural Bihar amidst the evils of the feudal landlords.

In the present paper the focus of the study is the Marxist outlook of the narrator. The narrator acquires Marxist point of view while describing the social reality in India. Human beings, as Marx put it, do shape the development of their society but in this they do not have complete freedom, instead they are constrained by the conditions of the material conditions around. History of all hitherto societies is the history of class struggle.

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Farooq Ahmad Sheikh
Research Scholar
University of Kashmir
Srinagar
Jammu and Kashmir
India
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