Tension between Tradition and Modernity in Diamond Shumshere Rana's The Wake of the White Tiger

Abstract

Diamond Shumshere Rana’s famous novel The Wake of the White Tiger has presented the issue of tension between tradition and modernity in political and cultural phenomena of Nepalese society. The writer creates tension in the political values like autocracy and democracy and cultural system of marriage like orthodoxical arranged marriage and marriage by elopement. So the tension basically occurs throughout the text and it has been used for multiple subversive effects; like to overthrow the autocratic Rana regime for the establishment of democracy and to exhibit the social, political and economical status of the people in the Rana regime. Thus, The Wake of the White Tiger foregrounds political as well as cultural themes.