Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography

Examines two of Rushdie's most widely read novels, Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh, in the context of Indian historiography to reveal Rushdie's views on the Indian state, nationhood and democracy The first systematic study of how the Indian nation is depicted in Rushdie's fiction Original, argues against the grain of existing Rushdie scholarship, which mostly takes a postcolonial approach Studies a wide range of material, including films and other fictional and non-fictional writing about India, interweaving historical and literary analysis