Jameson, Fredric, 137, 152

Jane, 70, 71, 75, 77, 78

Jase, 71

Jasme, 70, 77, 78

Jasmine, 4, 9, 13, 14, 21, 69–71, 77, 124

Jasmine, , 4, 9, 13, 14, 21, 22, 28, 66, 70, 72, 74–76, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 89, 123, 124, 134, 144, 146, 147

Joshi, Jumpy, 46

journey, 6, 13, 14, 21, 24, 31, 67, 78, 84, 101, 114, 118, 124, 128, 131, 134

Jullundhar, 67

Jyoti, 70, 71, 75, 77

Kate, 72

Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies,, 63

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 3

King, Bruce, 106, 119

Kripalsingh, Ranjit (see also Singh, Ralph), 94, 95, 100, 102–106, 108, 124, 146

Kristeva, Julia, 63, 66, 91

Lacan, Jacques, 20, 35, 53, 63

landscape, 5, 9, 14–20, 22–24, 31, 33, 34, 38, 41, 44, 49, 55–58, 62, 66, 67, 80, 83, 84, 99, 100, 102, 104–106, 111–113, 115, 116, 118, 136–139, 143, 149–151

language, 2, 8, 15, 17, 21, 23, 38, 43–46, 59, 60, 64, 92, 102, 113, 122, 126, 129, 135, 143

Lawson, Alan, 119

Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss,, 92

liminal space, 33, 34

The Location of Culture, , 35, 41, 63, 91, 119, 129, 152

London, 39, 47, 48, 95, 97, 98, 101, 102, 105, 115, 116, 128

London Calling: V. S. Naipaul. Postcolonial Mandarin,, 36, 119, 152

loss, 23, 24, 33, 34, 44, 103, 104

love, 14, 39

Lyotard, Jean-François, 51, 59, 63

Macaulay, Thomas, 96, 119

magic(al) realism, 3, 38, 133

Mahound (the Prophet), 3, 15, 48

man, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 25, 30, 32, 35, 39–43, 45, 49, 52, 58, 68, 71, 72, 80, 85, 98, , 104, 107–111, 116, 128, 131, 132, 146, 149

Black, 11, 13, 25, 41, 68

Brown, 25

Chinese, 11

Indian, 11, 131

Mimic, 107, 108, 111, 128

Western, 42

White, 25, 68

margin, 11, 27, 62, 65, 83

marginality, 62, 86

Márquez, Gabríel García, 3, 38

Marxism, 15, 32

Marxist, 26, 31, 32, 36, 59, 60, 73, 140, 146

criticism, 32

praxis, 32

Masters, Beigh, 29, 87, 124

memory, 21–23, 33, 36, 38, 44, 51, 54, 55, 58, 66, 76, 78, 83, 85, 100

metaphor, 46, 47, 56, 65, 114, 120