The present paper is about the escaping of the protagonist from his bourgeois society and finding his roots in primitive world. The novel The Strange case of Billy Biswas was published in 1971, it is an account of protagonist’s life who wanted to escape from the bourgeois and money minded society to a primitive life where he may heal or console his burning inner self. The protagonist of the novel is an educated man who completed his Ph.D. programme in anthropology from a famous university of New York, the United States and he returned to India, his motherland, after taking degree. In New York, he saw dehydrated society; money minded people and their hollowness and his soul didn’t find any peace. After coming in India he found the same scenario as he left in the United States. For him it was only a change of theatres but the drama was same. So he decided to leave his family and disappear in the forests of Maikala Hills during his one of expeditions. In the act of escaping from the woods, he was killed by the representatives of bourgeois society.