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Close readings of Midnight’s Children, A Suitable Boy, The Shadow Lines, and The Satanic Verses trace the breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus from 1975 to 2005, and show how these writers rewrite colonial and nationalist histories. 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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.  \nThe 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 rewrite 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.  \nNeelam 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.  \nPostcolonial literatures  \nEdited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. The series will also include collections of important essays from older journals, and re-issues of classic texts on postcolonial subjects. Routledge is pleased to invite proposals for new books in the series. Interested authors should contact Lyn Innes or Rod Edmond at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, or Routledge’s Commissioning Editor for Literature.  \nThe series comprises three strands.  \nRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures is a forum for innovative new research intended for a specialist readership. Published in hardback, titles include:  \n1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper  \n2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan  \n3. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style by Denise deCaires Narain  \n4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney  \n5. Caribbean–English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Döring  \n6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith  \n7. 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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava  \n18. 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