Internal Colonization, Internal Orientalism, Tribal Genocide, and Literary Marginalization of Adivasi Society

Abstract: Tribal characters in Indian English novels are totally marginalized and subjugated and find 
no place to remain in the memory of the readers. All the novels are mainly focused on the urban, elite 
background of the main characters and the Eastern and Western culture clash. According to the point of 
view of central characters like Billy Biswas, Clinton-Helen, Abhayraj, and Augustya Sen, tribals are 
ambitionless, and they have nothing to do with the rapidly changing socio-political milieu. They are far 
away from cultural evaluations, and tribal's psychological cultivation is an impossible task. Though the 
novels slightly touch on the theme of displacement, subjugation, and marginalization of tribals, finally, 
entire sympathies are taken by the main characters, as we found in The Strange Case Of Billy Biswas, 
The Princess, and The English August. Now the question arises why this happened in postcolonial 
Indian English novels. This research article tries to examine the internal exploitation and subjugation of 
Adivasis in their own heartland.