Salman Rushdie and Indian historiography : writing the nation into being

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Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Indian historiography and the nation	p. 6
1 A Biography of the Nation	p. 16
Imagining a nation	p. 17
The mirror of the nation	p. 26
Indira is India	p. 43
2 Wives, Widows, and Witches	p. 56
The nation's script for its middle-class wives	p. 57
The nation at the mercy of its monstrous women	p. 68
The wicked witch of the East	p. 76
3 The New God-and-Mammon India	p. 88
Nationalist élite India	p. 91
Hindu nationalist India	p. 102
Palimpsest India	p. 109
4 Mother India	p. 122
Sacralising the motherland	p. 123
Envisaging the nation in the image of the Mother	p. 137
Corrupting hegemonic images of Bharat Mata	p. 149
5 The Idea of a Hybrid India	p. 158
Macaulay's minutemen	p. 162
The novelistic nation	p. 172
Notes	p. 200
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 225

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