Time Period of

Salman
Rushdie
: John Doherty
Clash of HomeLands
- Born year of independence from Great Britain (1947)
- Grew up in 3 countries ( India, Pakistan, England)
- Lived through 3 wars over Kashmir
 Kashmir & and conflict between India and Pakistan

- 3 wars over dispute of the region

>1948

>1965

>1971

- Indian nuclear test 1974 sparks and arms race

> last known test in 1998

(3:10)
 Imaginary HomeLands
- “My lost City”

> Bombay

- “Unmentionable country across the border”

> Pakistan

- Critic of Pakistan, Nostalgia for Bombay

> “our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not
be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; that we will, in short,
create fictions, not actual cities of villages, but invisible ones, Imaginary
homelands, Indias of the mind.”
- Secular Upbringing

>The Satanic Verses and Iran

> demonification within certain Muslim communities

>Criticism of Pakistan

- “ Bombay is a city built by foreigners upon reclaimed land; I, who had been
away so long that I almost qualified for the title…”

> more cosmopolitan & Multi-cultural

> outsider in Pakistan

> Fantasy of India

 - “ “ Esso puts the tiger in your tank” and, on the other, the curiously
contradictory admonition: “ Drive like Hell and you will get there.” “

> Duality of his life between Pakistan and India

> being on the same board, shares a common thread but radically opposite

> ” if your use to india, which is a rich complicated and open society; full of
colors and smells and excess and real richness of life experience. And you cross
the frontier into pakistan, which use to be the same place, now you feel in a
cultural sense, a kind of airlessness...”
 Work Cited
1) “Interview with Rushdie.” YouTube , Www.forumchannel.org , 4 Nov. 2010,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_Bxzzddnk&t=190s.
2) Rayees Mohammad Bhat, B. Rangaiah. (2015) The impact of conflict exposure and social support on posttraumatic
growth among the young adults in Kashmir. Cogent Psychology 2:1.
3) Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands. 1991.
4) Slaughter, M. M. “The Salman Rushdie Affair: Apostasy, Honor, and Freedom of Speech.” Virginia Law Review, vol. 79, no. 1, 1993,
pp. 153–204. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1073409.
5) James Piscatori; The Rushdie affair and the politics of ambiguity, International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, 1 October 1990,
Pages 767–789.