This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation
and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers
of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman
Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with
particularly close readings of Midnight's Children, A Suitable Boy,
The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava
investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the
secular framework of the Anglophone novel.
The book traces the breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus
between 1975 and 2005 through these narratives of postcolonial
India. In particular, it examines how these writers use the novel
form to re-write colonial and nationalist versions of Indian
history, and how they radically reinvent English as a secular
language for narrating India. Ultimately, it delineates a common
conceptual framework for secularism and cosmopolitanism, by arguing
that Indian secularism can be seen as a located, indigenous form of
a cosmopolitan identity.
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