The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature

1. Introduction
Anna Guttman

2. Compromise and Contradiction in Jawaharlal Nehru’s Multicultural Indian Nation
Anna Guttman

3. Vikram Seth’s Real(ist) India
Anna Guttman

4. Parodying Nehru in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh
Anna Guttman

5. All in the Family: Nayantara Sahgal’s Indian Home
Anna Guttman

6. Reexamining Indian Nonalignment: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Anna Guttman

7. States of Dystopia: Imagining Future Indias in Ruchir Joshi’s The Last Jet-Engine Laugh
Anna Guttman

8. Unity in Diversity Beyond the Nation-State in Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop
Anna Guttman

9. Conclusion
Anna Guttman

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature