The White Tiger Maoism

The disgruntlement has given rise to the spread of Maoism and the absence of the rule of the law in the hinterlands of India, but Balram steers clear of ideological warfare. All that Balram wants to accomplish is to liberate himself from the ranks of the poor majority and team up with the rich minority, though he strongly despises them for keeping underdogs like him poor forever. He wants to murder the rich and pleads for help in accomplishing it: “. . . if there is blood on these streets . . . do you promise that he’ll be the first to go – that man with the fat folds under his neck?” (The White Tiger 132). The conflict between the polar opposites of the haves and the have-nots constitute the superstructures of the Western world. In The White Tiger, it is found transmuting into the orient through globalisation and in the process fashioning out new identities through permutations of totalisation and differentiation. Balram is well aware

While driving the car, he cannot take his eyes away from the money Mukesh has brought from Dhanbad for Ashok to pay off politicians and bureaucrats before the elections. His tempter, the devil within him, seems to whisper that the money belongs to the poor. All around him he begins to see signs that encourage him to steal it. Even the smog in Delhi, which blinds the entire administrative apparatus of the great capital, spurs him into action: “They won’t see a thing you do. I’ll make sure of that” (The White Tiger 147). The guard watching the parliament house puts his gun down the moment he sees Balram and appears to tell him: “Why would I stop you? I’d do the same, if I could” (147). Finally, Balram secures the victory of the have-nots through Ashok’s murder and escapes from the India of Darkness with a bag full of money towards his freedom in the India of