Neelam Srivastava is lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published on Indian literature in English and anti-colonial cinema, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal Interventions on colonial and postcolonial Italy.

• Introduction Chapter One: Theories of Secularism Chapter Two: Minority Identity in India: Midnight’s Children and A Suitable Boy Chapter Three: Secularism and Syncretism in The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses Chapter Four: Allegory and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel Chapter Five: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel –I Chapter Six: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel – II Chapter Seven: Languages of the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization in Rushdie and Seth

Neelam Srivastava is lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published on Indian literature in English and anti-colonial cinema, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal Interventions on colonial and postcolonial Italy.

• Introduction Chapter One: Theories of Secularism Chapter Two: Minority Identity in India: Midnight’s Children and A Suitable Boy Chapter Three: Secularism and Syncretism in The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses Chapter Four: Allegory and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel Chapter Five: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel –I Chapter Six: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel – II Chapter Seven: Languages of the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization in Rushdie and Seth

Neelam Srivastava is lecturer in postcolonial literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published on Indian literature in English and anti-colonial cinema, and has co-edited a special issue of the journal Interventions on colonial and postcolonial Italy.

• Introduction Chapter One: Theories of Secularism Chapter Two: Minority Identity in India: Midnight’s Children and A Suitable Boy Chapter Three: Secularism and Syncretism in The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses Chapter Four: Allegory and Realism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel Chapter Five: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel –I Chapter Six: The Historical Event in the Postcolonial Indian Novel – II Chapter Seven: Languages of the Nation in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization in Rushdie and Seth