The Holder of the World,, 46, 166–177, 181, 192, 216–217

Wife,, 60–63, 72, 180–182

Mukherjee, Meenakshi, 5, 36, 46, 155, 206

Murayama, Milton, 60

myth, 7, 9, 11–12, 37, 45–47, 69, 78, 84, 105–107, 130–132, 141–143, 154–159, 167–171, 176–177, 203, 215, 221, 227–241, 250–256

Naipaul, V. S., 34, 218

A House for Mister Biswas,, 156

An Area of Darkness,, 11, 64, 105, 159

India: A Million Mutinies Now,, 244

Nair, Rukmini Bhaya, 14–15, 46, 57, 94, 120, 145–147, 155

nama chronicle,, 40, 52, 57, 72, 107, 120, 144, 147, 162, 167

Nandan, Satendra, 60

Narasimhaiah, C. D., 13, 63, 117

Narayan, R. K., 7, 12, 36, 106, 160, 204, 245, 256

nation, 8, 46, 59, 72, 100, 114, 142, 203, 240, 244–245, 247, 251–254

exceeds limits, 6, 36–37, 60, 126, 151–152, 166, 173, 192, 234

and form, 9, 45, 57, 73, 108, 141–145, 152–155, 219, 237

and hero/representative character, 26–28, 155, 208

as historical, 11–12, 46, 144, 244

as incestuous closure. Seeincest

as invention, 6, 12

as mythic. See myth

and sublime, 107

paradox of narrativeSee also diaspora; globalised; Indian nation; migrant identity, 88, 97, 107, 138–143, 156, 244

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 12–13, 52, 57, 106, 108, 160

New Historicism, 8, 108, 151, 153–154

Newman, Judie, 167, 169, 175

Newton, Sir Isaac, 53, 251–252

Ngugi, wa Thiong’o, 141

nomadology, 46, 56

Norton Anthology, 18

Ondaatje, Michael, 129

Ören, Aras, 60

Parameswaran, Uma, 139

Parsi literature, 94, 125, 143

Partition, 3, 42, 108, 179, 212–213

Pascal, Blaise, 57, 258

periodisation, 3, 5, 108, 126, 147, 190, 203, 235, 249–251

photography, 108, 204–217

picaresque, 26, 49, 160

Plotz, Judith, 107, 253

Plutarch, 23

priority, 4, 6, 17–19, 32–34, 37–38, 42, 56, 73, 138, 243–244, 248, 251–252, 257

Proust, Marcel, 221

Puranas, 132, 154, 160, 168, 229

Pynchon, Thomas, 139, 222

Radhakrishnan, R., 8, 20, 44, 143

Rajan, P. K., 13