esome terror. It restrains the hungry majority from preying upon a fattened minority. The Rooster Coop is a fitting image that corresponds well with Fanon’s description of the subaltern lair as “a disreputable place inhabited by [the] disreputable” (4). It is a world without space, with people piled on one another and with their shacks squeezing against each other. It is a “sector that crouches and cowers, a sector on its knees, a sector that is prostrate” (4). The sector has also internalised the discipline that the coloniser has enforced upon it. It also guards itself and prevents any one from rebelling or getting out of it. The poor thus turn into bearers of their own “figurative, mental imprisonment” and become complicit in their own confinement (Bertens 151). According to Joshi and Pathak, “it pulls them back” because “slavery has seeped deep into their bones, their blood” (102). Balram’s vicious grandmother Kusum and his brother Kishen have both internalised the order enforced upon the downtrodden to become loyal servants and do their best to shape Balram in their mould, which he fiercely resists after he realises that “the desire to be a servant had been bred into me: hammered into my skull, nail after nail, and poured into my …show more content…
In order to keep the literate servants docile in Delhi, and through them the illiterate servants as well, the government encourages the publication of the Murder Weekly which billions of servants, who fantasise “about strangling their bosses,” read voraciously and share with their friends (The White Tiger 72). Such discourses seldom glorify the murderers who are usually presented as mentally deranged sex maniacs who either get arrested by straight going police officers or brutalised by the vengeful kin of the murdered, if they do not end up killing