Midnight’s Children
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Book 1: The Perforated Sheet Book 1: Mercurochrome Book 1: Hit-the-Spittoon Book 1: Under the Carpet Book 1: A Public Announcement Book 1: Many-headed Monsters Book 1: Methwold Book 1: Tick, Tock Book 2: The Fisherman’s Pointing Finger Book 2: Snakes and Ladders Book 2: Accident in a Washing-chest Book 2: All-India Radio Book 2: Love in Bombay Book 2: My Tenth Birthday Book 2: At the Pioneer Café Book 2: Alpha and Omega Book 2: The Kolynos Kid Book 2: Commander Sabarmati’s Baton Book 2: Revelations Book 2: Movements Performed by Pepperpots Book 2: Drainage and the Desert Book 2: Jamila Singer Book 2: How Saleem Achieved Purity Book 3: The Buddha Book 3: In the Sundarbans Book 3: Sam and the Tiger Book 3: The Shadow of the Mosque Book 3: A Wedding Book 3: Midnight Book 3: Abracadabra
Themes
All Themes Truth and Storytelling British Colonialism and Postcolonialism Sex and Gender Identity and Nationality Fragments and Partitioning Religion
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Characters
All Characters Saleem Sinai Shiva Aadam Aziz Naseem Ghani / Reverend Mother Mumtaz Aziz / Amina Sinai Nadir Khan / Qasim Khan Ahmed Sinai The Brass Monkey / Jamila Singer Mary Pereira Parvati-the-witch / Laylah Padma Aadam Sinai Major Zulfikar Tai William Methwold Dr. Narlikar Aadam Aziz’s Mother Aadam Aziz’s Father Rani of Cooch Naheen Mian Abdullah / The Hummingbird Alia Aziz Mr. Ghani Homi Catrack Evie Burns The Widow / Indira Gandhi Brigadier R. E. Dyer Lafifa Das Dr. Narlikar’s Women
Terms
All Terms Ayah Hartal Purdah Tetrapod
Symbols
All Symbols Noses Pickles Spittoons
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Midnight’s Children

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Salman Rushdie
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