ARAVİND ADİGA’NIN BEYAZ KAPLAN ROMANINDA SÖMÜRGECİLİK SONRASI HİNT TOPLUMU VE MADUN BİLİNCİ
POSTCOLONIAL INDIAN SOCIETY AND SUBALTERN CONCIOUSNESS IN ARAVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER

Summary/Abstract: Expressing the social and cultural problems the minority culture is exposed to the concept subaltern has a sigificant place in the study fields of postcolonial literature. Subalternity, one of the basic parameters that can be used in the analysis of Indian society and culture, take places among the situations that an Easterner freequently come across. This paper takes up the concept of subalternity espoused by the Subaltern Studies to identify and analyse the inequalities, victimisations and silences experienced in postcolonial Indian society. The term "subaltern" refers to any person or group of inferior rank and station whether in terms of race, class, caste, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion. In addition to this, it also refers to lower strata people of illiterate, non-elite cultural groups who are under-represented, undertaught, noncanonical and the subordinated group. Those are always directly or indirectly influenced by ideologies of dominant class. One of the most prominant authors of the postcolonial Anglo-Indian literature, Aravind Adiga deals with Balram Halwai who lives the most painful experiences of social inequality in Indian society and his struggle for resistance against the dominant structure. This novel, in which the subjects such as injustice, poverty, caste system, social corruption are dealt with, presents the reader realistically how the subaltern consciousness arises. In this study, the struggle between the colonizer and the colonized in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger will be examined in the light of Spivak’s subaltern theory and the author’s ideas and opinions within this context have been elaborated. The main themes of the work such as subaltern, subaltern problems, social inequality are among some of the reasons of why alienation and otherness appeared. Based on this common ground the essence of the concepts mentioned and the point reached will tried to be explained

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