Projection of Post Colonialism and Post Modernism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Abstract

Post Colonialism, Post Modernism, Magical Realism, Mythology, Deconstruction and Deformation are some of the theories that are been frequently reflected in our Indian Literature. Salman Rushdie has brilliantly implied these intellectual theories in his novel Midnight’s Children through his own tactics and ideas, which won him the Booker Prize Award in 1981. The implication of such theories in it was made possible with its dealing of the India’s past and binding Indian culture of past to the contemporary multicultural interface. The rare combination of all these combination of theories makes this novel a great post modernistic work. This Paper deals directly with the India’s partition from almost an Indian perspective. These qualities of this novel make it a literature of privilege and protest. It remains as an epitome, imposing Indian values, and economic pressure, cultural and religious predicaments that prevailed during and after the colonialism.