A SOCIO-LITERARY EXPLORATION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIA THROUGH ARAVIND ADIGA’S MAJOR NOVELS: URBANIZATION, CAPITALISM, CLASS CONFLICT AND THE POLITICS OF MODERNITY

Abstract
Aravind Adiga’s fictional universe provides one of the sharpest literary critiques of post�liberalization India. Across his five major novels—The White Tiger (2008), Between the Assassinations (2008), Last Man in Tower (2011), Selection Day (2016), and Amnesty (2020)—Adiga examines the tensions between development and deprivation, aspiration and exploitation, and modernity and marginalization. This paper explores how his works collectively portray the social, political, and economic contradictions of contemporary India. Using a socio-literary approach grounded in Marxism, urban sociology, and postcolonial theory, this paper argues that Adiga forges a multi-layered narrative landscape that mirrors the fragmented realities of neoliberal India.