Index for Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

A+

Abbott, Edwin 261 (Flatland)

Abd'Allah Ibn Abi Sarh [367

Abracadabra 354

Abraham (Ibrahim)

achha 34

Actors' Equity 163

`Ad 320

Adam 99, 336

adda 52

Aethiop 96 (slaves)

afeem (opium) 76, 96

afreet 22, 122

AIDS 284

Akbar, Grand Mughal, the Magnificient 16, 190

Akhtar, Mirza Saeed (character) 216-240

Akhtar, Mishal (character) 218-239

"Aladdin" 36, [48, [63, [69 (Arabian Nights)

albatross 87

alcohol 26, 208, 209, 215

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" 56, 377 (Arabian Nights)

alien 62, 139 (illegals)

The Aliens 62

"All the President's Men" 265

Allahu Akbar 115

alleluiah 190

Alphaville 4

Amalekites (people) 99

amen 190

America 56, 63, 64 (Las Vegas), 70, 71 (Texas), 75, 150

Amin, Idi 54

amphisbaenae 117

Anatolia 96 (slaves), 98

Angrez 53, 59

Annapurna 82

Apuleius, Lucius 243

Aqabah 103

Arabia Orodifera 95

Arabian Nights (The Tales of Thousand Nights and a Night) 36, [48, [63, [69 ("Aladdin"); [69 ("Sinbad and The Old Man of the Sea"); 56, 377 ("Ali Baba")

Arabian Sea 546

Arafat, Yassir 261

Ariadne [24

Armenia 61

Art Deco 347

Aryan 52

Asians 53

Asimov, Isaac 40 (Foundation)

Asmodeus 76

Assam 56-7, 73

assassins 177 (Russian), 362 (hashashin)

Assyria 117 (sphinx),

Astarte 99

Australia 62

avatars 17, 23 (of Jupiter), 82

ayah 12, 37, 66-8

Ayesha (A'isha) 380

Ayesha (character) The Empress 206-215; the butterfly girl 219-240; and Mahound 387 (in the desert), 393-4 (Mahound's sickness and death); `Ayesha' 388-389

Azazael 321

Azrael (Azraeel) 181, 394



B+

baabu-ré 223

Baal (character) 97-126

Baal (Baalzebub) [97

baba 3, 18, 61, 66

Babel 58 (India's)

Babington, Jorge, Doctor (character) 145

babu 61

Babylon 4, 212

bachcha 333

Bachchan, Amitabh 63, 73, 341

Bacon, Francis 62

bandanna 49

Banerji, Bibhutibhushan 245

Bangladesh [206, 243, 259

banyan tree 45, 224

baprebap 21

Bapsy (character) 183

Baranczak, Stanislaw 297

barfi 184 (pista barfi), 249

baron-samedi 289

Bartica 193

Basra 96

Battle Hill 130

Battuta, Billy (character) 260

Battuta, Ibn [260

Baum, L. Frank [22, [282 (yellowbrick lane) (The Wizard of Oz)

Beaton, Cecil 298

Beckett, Samuel 340

beedi 12

Beelzebub 76, 167

Begin, Menachem 261

begum 65, 244 (sahiba)

beheshti 95

Benares (Varanasi) [74

Benarsi sari 74

Bengal 243

The Berlin Wall 347

Besant, Annie 24

bhaenchud

bhai 65, 83, 223 (bhaijan)

bhangra 284

bhel-puri 341

Bhopal 52

bibi 34, 81, 195

Bible 175 (Psalm 137); 206 (Sodom Gen 19); 236 (the parting of the Red Sea, Ex 14); 278 (mote and beam, Matt 7:3); 296 (In the beginning, Joh 1); 297 (precious pearl, Matt 13:45-6); 299 (gift of tongues, Acts 2:1-15); 321 (sons of God, Gen 6:4); 332 (Fall, Rev 12:9); 349 (John the Baptist, Mark 1:1-4)

big bang 4

Big Ben (London) 38

Big Eid 276

Bilal (character) 101-118; (Bilal X) 207-211

Bilal ben Rabah [101

Billimoria, Pimple (character) 12-13

Bilimoria, D. or E. or Fali [12

Binaca smile 53

Birbal 16

birth 3, 8, 10, 11, 17, 84, 87

black holes [61

Black Maria 142

Blake, William 304-5, 318, 338 (Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Blanchflower, Danny 161

blasphemy 49, 66, 69, 102

Blitz 13

Blofeld (character by Ian Fleming) 266-267

the Bloom's 298

Bluto (cartoon) 67

bodhi-tree 16

Bohemia 397

Bokhara rug 7

Bombay 11-31, 35-40, 44-9, 51-75

Bond, James [7 (character by Ian Fleming)

Boniek (character) 348

Bonney, William (Billy the Kid) 263

Bostan 4, 74

Botticelli 61 ("Birth of Venus")

Bradbury, Ray (The Martian Chronicles) 40

Braniff planes

Breach Candy Hospital 28-9, 52

Brecht, Bertold [3

Brick Lane [283

Brickhall 184, 283 (Brickhall Three)

broom 299

Brown, Eustace (character) 27-8

Brunel, Jack (character) 315-6

Bruno, Joe (character) 158

Bruno, Joe [158

Brutus 316

BTCA (Bombay Tiffin Carriers Association) 20

Buddha 20 (buddha-fat), [196 (mantra)

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward [361

Bumper Book of Fairy Tales 197

Burleigh, H.T. [87 ("Joshua")

Burns, Robert [196 ("Tam O'Shanter")

burqa 350

Burton, Richard 36

Busybee 13

butterfly girl 24

Byron, Lord [134 ("The Destruction of Sennacherib")



C+

Cactus Flower [18

Caesar, Julius 245

cannibalism 52 (long pork), 184 (Mailer)

Carmen 397

Carné, Marcel (Les enfants du paradis) [34

Carradine, David 278

Carrol, Lewis [54 (Alice in Wonderland); [58 (Through the Looking-Glass)

Celebrity 16

chaat 248

chai 184 (chaloo), 353 (tcha)

chamcha 54, 83

Chamcha, Saladin (Salahuddin Chamchawala) 3-10, 17, 33-87, 511-547

Chamchawala, Changez (character) 36, 40-9, 63-73, 511-535, 546

Chamchawala, Nasreen (character) 39-40, 42, 44-7

Chamchawala, Nasreen (II) (character) 47-8, 64-, 511

Chanakya 42

Chandela 12 (period), 70 (bronze)

Channel (see English Channel)

Chanukah 298

Charles I 220

Charles II 340

Charulata 342

Château Talbot 182

Chatnapatna 221

Chaudhuri, Nirad 398

Cheshire-Cat 166

Chevalier, Maurice 266

chhatri 26

chhi chhi 13

chimera 299, 301, 370

chin chin 183

Chingiz Khan (Genghiz) [36

Chola Natraj 14

Chomolungma (Mt. Everest) [3, 82

chootia 80

Christ (see Jesus)

Chu Chin Chow [327

Circassian eunuchs 376

Circe 24

circumscision 60

Claudette (character) 147

Cleopatra's Needle (London) 334

Club Hot Wax 291

cobra 78

Coca Cola 52 (Coke), (Coca-Colonization)

cocaine 76

Cochin 76

Cohen, Otto (Cone) 297

coir 355

Colaba 14

Collingwood Expedition 195

Columbus, Cristopher 54

communism, CPI(M) 537,

Cone, Alleluia (character, Alicja, Allie) 8, 30-2, [92, 295; 31, 85, 309 (icewoman, ice queen, frosty berg); 313 (fairy)

Cone, Elena (character, Yelyena)

Cone, Otto (character, Cohen) 295, 297-8

Cone Mountain 92-126

Cowper, William [95

crashpad 306

CRC (Community Relations Council) 286

crore 344

crorepati 64

Cruz, Martin de la (character) 138

Cuba 312

Curran, John Philpot [158

The Curtain (Hijab) 376-389



D+

dabba 18 (stealers), 331

dabbawalla 11 (lunch-runner), 18, 331

dada 56

Daedalus [5

dai 22

The Daily 13

Dajjal 371

Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) 84

dalda (ghee) 54

dark stars 12 (darkened), 61, 349

Darwin, Charles 75, 251 (great Charles, Origin of Species)

death 15, 16,

Defoe, Daniel (epigraph) The History of the Devil, [173 (A Journal of the Plague Years)

Deep Throat 265

Depo-Provera 252

Desh 206-215

Deutero-Isaiah 323

Devi, Phoolan 13, 58, 263

dhaba 56

Dhaka 243

dharma bums 174

Dharraamm 3

Dharwendra 350

Dhaulagiri 82

dhoti 38, 224

Diamond, Henry (Enrique) (character) 138, 143

Diamond, Rosa (character) 129-

Din, Sarpanch Muhammad (character) 225

Disney 195 (Disneyish)

djellabah 81

djinn 22, 48, 117, 122, 275

Doordarshan 14

The Doors [3

dosa 246, 258 (masala)

dreams 22, 32, 392

Dresden 65

Dumsday, Eugene 75-7, 79-81, ?

Durga Khote 73

Dynasty 265



E+

Eclogues (Virgil) 248

Egypt 103

ekdumjaldi 12

electric shock treatment (EST) [338 (plug him in)

elephant joke 300

The Elephant Man [275

Eliot, T.S. [287 ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")

Elizabeth I, Queen 280 (Gloriana), [332 (fairy-queen)

England 4-5, 8-10, 31, 37-48

English Channel 3, 9, Sleeve (La Manche) 5

Eros 174

Essequibo (river) 193

Evans, Cadwallader (character) 152

Everest Vilas 13



F+

Faiz, Faiz Ahmed 334

Falkland Road 52

Falklands War 175

falling, 3 (Gibreel & Saladin), 4 (stars), 5 (angelicdevilish), 8 (birth), 14-5 (Rekha and children, suicide), 133 (matter of tumbles), 181 (Pamela's parents, suicide), 298 (Otto Cone, suicide) 332 (Tumble of Woman and Man, Qur'an/Bible)

Family Planning Doll 224, 475

Fanon, Franz 353 [The Wretched of the Earth]

farangis 93

Farishta, Gibreel (character) 3-33, 17 (Ismail Najmuddin), 63, 75-87, 91-126 (first dream section), 130-156, 189-202, 205-240 (second dream section), 294, 295-356, 359-394 (third dream section), 473-507 (fourth dream section),

farishta 17

Fate 99

fauntleroy 45

Fawkes, Guy [291, [293

fedora 177

felo de se 324

Femina, Jerry della 266

Filmmela 350

Fitzgerald, Edward 397

flame of the forest 45

Fleming, Ian (see Bond, James)

Flight AI-420 4

Flintstones 42

forbidden foods 29, 31

Frazer, James [398

Frederick (character in the film by Carné) 34

funtoosh 81, 344



G+

Gagari 536

Gama, Vasco da 76

Gandhi, Bhupen (character) 53-8

Gandhi, Indira [28

Gandhi, Rajiv 56

Gandhi, Sanjay [28

Ganesh (Ganpati Baba) 24

Ganpati Baba (Ganesh) 24

Garbo, Greta 26

gargoyle 64

Garrick Club 163

gazal (ghazal) 3, 9, 334

Gautama, Siddharta (Buddha) 16

Gehenna 254

Genghiz Khan (Chingiz) [36

Geographer's London 156

ghee (dalda) 54, [166

ghost 22, 58, 61, 66

Gibreel, Archangel 123, 239, 315 (Angel of the Recitation)

Ginsberg, Allen [312 (Howl)

Gitanjali (Tagore) 248

Glass Bertha 169

glass skin 33-4; 30, 131 (skin of ice); 169 (Glass Bertha)

Glenn (character, dog) 176

Gloriana (Elizabeth I, Queen) 280, 306 (virgin queen)

Goa 398

god 21, 30; 41, 48 (father); 75 (guard); 92 (allgood allahgod); 99 (Allah); 111 (Allah Ishvar God); 182, 289 (I am); 216; 393-394

Godard, Jean-Luc [4

The Golden Bough (Frazer) 398

gopi 16

Gothenburg 26

Grahame, Kenneth [54 (The Wind in the Willows)

Gramsci, Antonio [15, 84-5

Granger 147

Granny Ripper 287

Grant, Ulysses S. [283

Grant Road 37

Gremlins 182

Griffith, D. W. [11

gryphon 117

"Guantanamera" 312

Gujranwala 159

gulab jaman (jamum) 248

Gulistan [4, [245

Gurdjijeff, Georgy S. 299

Guyana [193

Gwalior 342



H+

Hafsah [382

Hafsah (character) 382

Hagar 91, 95, 99

haj 236, 243

Halévy, Ludovic 397

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Hamza (character) 104-125

Hamza, Amir [69, [104

Hamza-nama cloths 69-70, 292

Handel, Georg Friedrich 194 (Messiah)

Hanuman 24

haramzada 27

Haram Sharif (Kaaba) 235

haramzadi 250

Hare Krishna 174

harpy 92

Harrods 137

hashashin (assassin) 362

hashish 76, 96

Harold Arroweye 130

Hastings 130

Hauer, Rutger 268 (Blade Runner)

Hawn, Goldie 18 [Cactus Flower

Headroom, Max [63

Heinz 286

Henley, William Ernest [256 ("Invictus")

Henty, G.A. 229

Herbert, Zbigniew 297

Hesse, Herman 252 (Der Steppenwolf)

Heston, Charlton 132

Higham, Henry 182

hijab [376

Hijaz 93

hijra (eunuch) 54 (Amazonic), 80,

hijra (hegira) 125

the Himalayas 4

Hind (character) 96-125, 392-393

Hind 70, [96

Hindustan 54

Hindustani 58

hippogriff 120

Hira Mountain [92

Hit 99

Hitler, Adolf [316 (Hawful Hadolf)

Ho Chi Minh 177

Hocus Pocus 354

Hoffman, Dustin 341

Holbrook, Hal (character) 265

homosexuality 22, 23, 25, [122

Hong Kong 24

Hopkins, Matthew 1182

Horace [326 (Odes)

Hosanna 190

houri 117

The House of the Black Stone 94, 97, 98, 99, 100-124, 235 (Haram Sharif), 359

Hubal (Abel) 99, 373 (colossus)

hubshee 255

Hughes, Thomas [267 (Tom Brown's School Days)

Hurlingham 147

Huxley, Aldous [40 (Brave New World)

hybrid 6, 7



I+

Iago (character of William Shakespeare) 315

Iblis 327

Ibrahim 17, 95, 99, [276 (Big Eid)

Ibrahim (character) 377 (the butcher)

Icarus [5

ice queen (-> Alleluia Cone)

The Illustrated Weekly 16

The Imam (character) 205-215

immigration 4

insomnia 24, 32, 82-3

Isa (Jesus) 118 (Qur'an)

Isis 244

islam (Submission) 125, 289

Ismail 17 (Gibreel), 95, [276 (Big Eid)

Ismailis 209

Ithuriel 324



J+

jacaranda 45

jackfruit 17, 45

Jackson, Jessie [192

Jackson, Mahalia 298

Jacob [122-4

Jahannum 254

Jahilia 93-126, 215

Jahweh 323

Jaipur 342

Jaisalmer 26, 70

Jalandri 82

jalebi 184, 248

James, Henry 397

Jamme Masjid 285

Janab 323

Japan 135 (Japonaiserie)

Jarry, Alfred 297 (Ubu Roi)

Jayapradha 350

Jean of Arc 186

Jefferson, Thomas [162

Jerry 138

Jerusalem 110, 212

Jesus [23, 84 (Christ), [118

Jews 31 (yahudan), 60-1, 96, 297-8

ji 12

"Jingle Bells" 131

jodhpur 141

St. John the Divine 245

Johnson, Hanif 185

Jones, Grace 292

Joshi, Jamshed `Jumpy' 172-188, 243

Joyce, James [5, [188, [283 (Ulysses); 260 (Finnegans Wake);

juggernaut 254

Julia, Juan (character) 149

Jupiter (god) 23, 84

Jurhum 91

Juwairiyah [382

Juwairiyah (character) 382



K+

K2 82

ka 322

Kaaba [94, [97, 235 (Haram Sharif)

kabaddi 58

kachori

kahin 234

Kain 99

Kali 26

Kan ma kan... 143

Kanchenjunga 82

Kannada 70

Kanya Kumari (Kanyakumari, Cape Comorin) 27

Kapoor, Raj [5

Karim, Abdul (The Munshi) 292

Karnataka 37

Kashmir [45, 65, 342

Kasturba 37, 45, 66

Katha-Sarit-Sagar (The Ocean of the Streams of Story) 342

kathputli 311

Keats, John [62 ("Ode to a Nightingale")

Kelly, Grace 26

Kelly, Ned 263

Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline 179

Kenya [140

Kenyatta, Jomo [140

Kerala 26, 70, 76

Kermit the Frog 62, 140

Kerouac, Jack [174 (Dharma Bums)

Khadija (character) 225 (Din),

Khadija 22, [225

khali-pili kalaas 46

Khalid (character) 95-125 (M), 210 (I), 381 (I, General)

Khalid ibn al-Walid [95

Khan, Aga 26, 209

Khanna, Vinod 262, 350

khattam-shud 122

Khayyam, Omar [172 (Rubayat), 397

khir 341

Khote, Durga 73

Kim (Kipling) [158

Kimi 350

Kipling, Rudyard [158-159 (Kim), [176 (The Jungle Book),

kipper 44, 46

Kiss of the Spiderwoman [24

klims and kleens 14

Kraft cheese 41

kreplach 297

Kung Fu 278

Kureishi, Hanif [185, [228

Kuri, Yoji 317

Kurla 14

kurta 174

Kurus 283 (Mahabharata)



L+

Laburnum 299

lafanga 27

lala 15

Lalique chrystal 14 [René Lalique]

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste-Pierre Antoine de 5, 251

Lambrakis, Gregory 271

lassi 341

Lat (Al-Lat, Lato, Ilat) 8, 91, 100-126, 392, 394

lathi-charges 28, 75

Le Fay, Morgan 144

Lee, Bruce 244

Lee, Robert E. [283

Lee, Ulysses E. (character) 283

Legree, Simon (character by Stowe) 292, 294

Levantine 326

Lime, Frank (character)

"Little Black Sambo" 294

"Little Red Riding Hood" [136

locus classicus 314

London 3, 4, 18, 31, 33, 35, 37 (eelowen deeowen), 38-43, 156

Long, Edward 292

lote-tree (Qur'an 53:14) 91, 235

Love Story (Segal) 64

Lovelace, Pamela 49-51, 53, 59, 85

LSD [306 (sugar-lump)

Lucifer 76, 131

Lucretius 276

"La lutte continue" 264

Luzhin (character of Vladimir Nabokov) 311



M+

MacCool, Finn 179

Machzikel HaDath synagogue 285

MacMurray 307

MacSween 152

Madaura (Morocco) 243

Madonna 245

The Magnificient Seven 64

Mahabharata 283

Mahagonny 4

maharaj 12

Mahavilayet 283

Mahmood, singer (character) 207

Mahound (character) 92-125, 379 (Nib), 393-4 (sickness and death)

Mailer, Norman [184 (Cannibals and Christians)

Maimunah [382

Maimunah (character) 382

Makalu 82

Malabar Hill 13

mala'ikah/malak 336

Malory, Sir Thomas [144 (Morte d'Athur)

Mamoulian, Mimi 60-3

Manaf 99

Manaslu 82

Manat 91, 99-126

Manet, Edouard 61 ("Olympia")

Marine Drive 13

Maudsley Hospital 339

manticore 102, 115-8, 167, 361 (manticorps)

mantra 196 (om mani padmè hum)

Mao Tse Tung (Chedong) 296

Marinetti, Filippo Tommasso 311

Mohican 326

Martello tower 147

Marwah 95

Mary the Copt [382

Mary the Copt (character) 382

Maryam (Mary) 118

masala dosa 258

masala movie 319

Maslama, John (character) 190

Matilda 62

Matthau, Walter 18 [Cactus Flower]

Mau Mau [140

McCoy 250

Mecca 24, 48, 70, 235 (Mecca Sharif), 239

Meerut 537, soldiers 230

Mehta, Jatinder Singh 284

Meilhac, Henri 397

"Mera joota hai japani" (O, my shoes are Japanese) 5

Merchant, Ismail [7

Merchant, Rekha (character) 7-9, 14, 25-32, 319, 350

Merlin 144

The Message (film) 272 (Al-Risala, Mohammed, the Messenger of God)

Mesopotamia 103

metamorphosis 5, 7, 23, 30

Mhatre, Babasaheb (character) 19-23, 25

Michelin 60, 271

Midian 103

Milosz, Czeslaw 297

Milton, John 324 (Paradise Lost)

Miranda [53 (The Tempest) (Shakespeare)

Miranda, George (character) 53-57

Miss Piggy 62

Mistry, Dr. (character) 197

Mistry, Rohinton [197

Mithun 350

mongoose 78

Monophysite 96

Monroe, Marilyn 61

Moscow Road 299

Moseley, Uriah 328

Moses 110

Mosley 292

mosque 120

Mount Everest (Chomonglungma) 3, [82, 85

movies 11-7, 108 (techniques),

Mughal 26, 52, 70

"Mughal-e-Azam" 334

Muhammad (The Prophet) 22, 24, 63, 70, [92, [93 (Mahomet, MoeHammered), 184 (Sufyan); [321

mullah 276

Mumba Devi [17

Mumbai (Bombay) 17

mummyji 17

The Munsters 62

muqaddam 19

Musa (character) 378 (the grocer)

Musaylima the Liar [190

"Music of the Spheres" 190

Muspellheim 254

mutation 5

Muttalib 92



N+

na 59

Nabatean 96, 99

Nabokov, Vladimir [269 (nymphet, Lolita); 211 (The Defense)

al-Nafzawi, Sheikh [245 The Perfumed Garden (Gulistan)

Najmuddin, Ismail (->Farishta, Gibreel)

Najmuddin, Naima (character) 17-9, 22

Najmuddin, Senior (character) 19

Nakruh 99

namaqool 7

Namche Bazar 303

Nandi bulls 71

Nanga Parbat 82

Narcissus [24

narrator (the authorial voice, 'I') 10, 25, 93, 133, 251, 256, [318-319, 397, 408-409, 424-425

National Front 283

natyam 74

nawab (nabob) 59

Neechayvala 318-319

Nelson's Column (London) 38

Never-Never 55

Nib (The Prophet) 379

Nicholson, Jack [353

Nietzsche, Friedrich 216

Nigel (character) 346

Nightingale, Florence [292

Nightmare on Elm Street [252

nikah ceremony 58

Notting Hill 59, 278

Novak, Kim (character) 158-164

Novak, Kim [158

Nubia 96 (slaves)



O+

obeah 280, 293, 330

"The Ocean of the Streams of Story" (Katha-Sarit-Sagar) 342

Ogilvy, David

Olympians 15

The Omen [252

Ooparvala 318-319

Op Art 39

opobalsam trees 93

Osman 221-240

Ovid [6, 276 (Metamorphoses)

Oz [22, 55, [75



P+

paan 229

pachy (pachyderm) 299

Packy 157, 163

padyatra 73, 488

Pagal Khana 341, 346

Pahlevi, Reza 14

Pakistan 45 (war), 56, 243

Pali Hill 64

Palmyra 103

panchayat 222, 235

Pandavas 283 (Mahabharata)

Pandemonium 352

Pandora 217 (imps)

pani nani 209

panjandrum 45

Paradise 393

Parsi 38 (style),

Partido Socialista 173

patchouli 174

Pathfinder pilot 181

Pavarotti, Luciano 341

Pemba, Sherpa 198

The Perfumed Garden (Gulistan)245

Peristan 55, 217

Perón, Juan 147

Perownistan 230

Persepolis 14

Persia 103

Persian Gulf 33

Petra 103

Phillips, Hyacinth (character) 164

Phillips, Orphia 328

Phillips, Wendell [158

phoenix 84

phutt 21

physic 21

Picabia 295

pice 185

Pinkwalla (character Sewsunker Ram) 291, 293

pir 185, 234

pista barfi 184

pooja 68

Popey (cartoon) 66

Powell, Enoch 186, 292

The Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi) 28

The Prince of Darkness 290

The Prophet (-> Muhammad)

Prospero Players [The Tempest (Shakespeare)] 49, 74, 79

protean 201

Puig, Manuel [24

pukka 326

Punch 316

Pune (Poona) 17

punkah 231

punkah-walla 231

purana 24

The Pure Hell of St Trinians 42

Pygmalien [62 (Pygmalion)

Pynchon, Thomas [3



Q+

qalmah (qualmah) 105, 106, 239, 335, 373-4, 392

qasidah 97

Qatar 34

Quant hairstyle 52 [Mary Quant]

Qur'an [91 (lote-tree, 53:14); 110, 212, [336 (Night Journey 17:1); 118 (Isa 2:87); [91, 124 ("The Star" 53:); 125 (al-qur'an), Quran-Sharif 245; 323 (O Children of Adam, 7:27); 332 (Fall, 38:78); 336 (Quran clearly states, 18:50, 2:34, 17:61); 336 (Wilt thou place, 2:30); 354 (Tree of Immortality, 7:20)

Qureishi, Mrs. (character) 228-239



R+

Rabanne, Paco 305

Rabanus Maurus [95 (De rerum naturis)

radio 210

`rail roko' demonstration 75

raita 341

rajah 40

rajaz verses 97

Rajneesh, Bhagwan Sri (Osho) 17

Rama, D. W. (character) 11, 12 (studios), 23

Ramachandran, M.G. (MGR) 73

Ramayana 24

Ramlah [382

Ramlah (character) 382

Rao, N.T. Rama 28, 73

Red Fort (Lal Qual'ah) [64

Redgrave, Vanessa 341

Reeve, Christopher 341

Rehana the Jew [382

Rehana the Jew (character) 382

Renata (character) 207

revelation 5

Richalmus, Monk 321

Ridley (character) 62-3

Rig-Veda 245

rishi 185

Ripper, Granny (character) 183,

Ripper, Jack the [183

Roberts, Sylvester (character, Uhuru Simba) 285

roc 117

The Rolling Stones [286 ("Sympathy for the Devil")

Rotary Club 76

"Rule, Britannia!" 6

Rushdie, Salman [101



S+

Sadi [4

Safa 95

Safia [382

Safia (character) 382

Safwan [387

Safwan (character) 387

sahib 35, 66, 244

Saladin, Sultan 175

salah 27, 57

Salman Farsi (character) 101-118 (M), 210 (I), 360-

Salman al-Farisi [101

Salomon 103

salwar 275

Samant, Datta 55

samosa 184

Santacruz airport 39

sari 7, 15, 40, 66; sari-pallu 22

Sartre, Jean-Paul 72

satanic verses 6 (verses of his own), 8 (verses in a language he did not understand), 91 (his soft seductive verses), 97 (the poetry competition), 123 (herons or swans) (satanic ... foul verses), 124 (abrogation of the verses), 340 (These are exalted), 373 (Exalted birds)

Saturnine 13

satyr 244

Sawdah [382

Sawdah (character) 382

sayonara 313

Scandal Point 13, 35, 55, 64-65, 546

Schwarzenegger, Arnold 268

science-fiction [40

Scott, Ridley [62

Seacole, Mary 292

Searle, Ronald [42

Segal, Erich [64 (Love Story)

Sellers, Peter 51

Semjaza 321

Sesame Street 62

seven-tiles 58

Severus, Septimus 38, 292

Sewsunker, Ram 291, 293

Shaandaar 184-7

Shah 353

Shaitan (Satan) 48, 91-124, 210, 315

Shakespeare, William 109; [49 (The Tempest); [133 (King Lear); [172, 248, 315, 398 (Othello); 228, 262 (Hamlet); 316 (Julius Caesar); [370 (Romeo and Juliet)

Shangri-La 295

shareef 156 (London), 235 (Mecca) (Haram), 250

Shark (Quraysh) 95, 103

Shatchacha 353

Shaw, George Bernard 49, 62, 71 (The Millionairess); (Pygmalion)

Shaw, Run Run 342

Sheba (Saba) 103, 103 (Queen)

Shelley, Mary [348 (Frankenstein)

Sher Khan 176

Shiv Sena 55, 537

shiksa 268

The Shining [252, [353

Shree 420 (Mr. 420) 5

Shufflebotham, Dora (character) 134

sickness 7, 11, 15, 25-9

Sikh 79

Simba, Uhuru (character, Sylvester Roberts) 267, 285

Simbel, Karim Abu, the Grandee (character) 96-125, 392-393

simurgh (simurg) 120

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 301 (Satan in Goray)

Singer, Israel Joseph 301 (The Family Carnovsky)

Singh (characters) 78-87 (Dara, Buta, Man); 54 (Khalida/Kerleeda)

Singh, Buta [78

Singh, Dara [78

Singh, Man [78

Sirdarji 86 (cut-sird)

sivayyan 341

Skinner, B. F. 397

skol 183

Skorpios, island of 179

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 195

Society 16

Sodom 206

Soho (London) 322

Sol, Aurora del (character) 147

Solomon 380 (horses)

Southall [283

Spurs (Tottenham Hotspurs FC) 161

Sridevi 262, 341, 350

Srinivas Sri S. 224

A Star Is Born [344

Star Wars 62

Stein, Jock (character) 158-

Stein, Jock [158

Stevenson, Robert Louis [340 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

St.Lucia 346

Stowe, Harriet Beecher [267, [292, [294 (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

St. Paul's Carthedral (London) 39, [327

Struwelpeter 274 (Aileen)

Submission (Islam)

Sufyan, Abu [184

Sufyan, Anahita (character) 186

Sufyan, Mishal (character) 186

Sufyan, Muhammad (character) 184, 243-

Suleiman the Wise 361

supernova 16

sushi 274

swadeshi 229

Swatilekha 536-537

Sweden 26



T+

tabla 253

Tagore, Rabindranath 228 (Ghare-Baire); 245; Gitanjali 248

Taif 378, 392

takht 374

The Tales of a Thousand Nights and a Night (-> Arabian Nights)

tamasha 334

Tantric 12

Tavleen 74, 78-87

The Tempest (Shakespeare) [49, Miranda [53

Tennyson, Alfred Lord 136 [Enoch Arden]

Thamoud 320

tharaap 15

Thatcher, Margaret [266, [293

theosophy [24

Thomson, James 6

"Three Little Words" 334

Thums Up Cola 56, 66

tiffin [11 ('tiffin-carriers', lunch-runners of Bombay); 18, 29

time 34, 41, 211 (calendars), 214-215

Tini bénché achén! 271

tinka 39

Tinkerbell (Peter Pan) 49

Titian "Venus of Urbino" [61

Titlipur 217

Toady 54

Toff 316

tola 246

Torture, Mrs. (character) 266, 293 (Maggie)

Trafalgar Square (London) 37

Trojan horse 56

Trotskyist 49

true name 192

Truffaur Francois 302 (L'Argent du Poche)

tsimmi 298

Turin Shroud 346

Turner, Lana 298

Turpin, Dick 263

Tyburn tree 41



U+

Uganda [54, 140 (ugando-kenyattas)

Uhud 70

Umar 389

Umm Salamah the Makhzumite [382

Umm Salamah the Makhzumite (character) 382

umra 236, 239

unified field theory 24, 81

Union Carbide [52

The United Nations 60

Urdu love-poetry 232

uttapam 246

Uzza (al-Uzza) 91, 99-126



V+

Vadodara (Badora) 17

Vakil, Zeenat (Zeeny) 51-74, 83, 532-547

Valance, Hal (character) 264

Vallabh (Vallabhai) 45, 65-

Van Heusen shirts 42

Vanessa (Redgrave) 341

Varma, Ravi 70

Vassilikos, Vassilis [271 (Z)

VCR (video) 83, 243

Vespucci, Americo 150

Victoria, Queen [297 (Widow of Windsor)

Vikings [144

Vilayet 4, 31, 35, 37, 283 (Mahavilayet)

Vinci, Leonardo da [167 ("Mona Lisa")

Virgil 248 (Eclogues)

virgo intacta 306

Vishnu 17, 84

voice 9, 112, 123, 173 (Voice), 181, 211 [Voice of America]



W+

wahi 321

walnut-tree 45, 48, 65, 69, 72

Warden Road 28

water 26, 94, 209-215

Watkins, Rochelle 330

Weaver, Sigourney 62-3

Wembley Stadium 398

Weill, Kurt [3

Wells, Mary 266

Wells, Orson 266

Wesley, John [10

West, Mae 60

Whittington Turn-again 186

wilderness 23, (Wildernesse) 327

William the Conqueror (Willie-the-Conq) 44, 129-130

Willingdon Club 12

Wilson, Harold 177

Wilson, Maurice (character) 196

Wing Chun 244

Witchfinder General 182, 280

wog 54

Wolf 316

Wonderland 6, 55, 122

Woodward, Bob 265

World's End (Land's End) 306

Wren, Christopher 327



X+

Xixabangma Feng (Gosainthan) 82



Y+

Ya Allah 30

yaar 3, 18, 51, 85

yahudan 31

yakhni 253

Yates, Dornford 229

Yates [277 ("The Second Coming")

Yathrib (Medina) 103, 125, 215

Yelamma cult 37

yeti 196

Yuké 248



Z+

Zafar 103

Zainab bint Khuzaimah [382

Zainab bint Khuzaimah (character) 382

Zainab bint Jahsh [382

Zainab bint Jahsh (character) 382

zamindar 216

Zamzam 78, 91, 94, 95, 104, 106

zenana 218

Zephon 324



numbers

420: 4, 5, 31, 73

1001: 21, 26, 60 (the Man of a Thousand Voices and a Voice), 215

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