![]() ![]() In The Moor’s Last Sigh, in contrast, the Nehruvian consensus is depicted as crumbling and Hindu nationalism is portrayed as the new dominant force in the late twentieth century, a force which imagines India as an exclusive Hindu nation. Midnight’s Children still pleads for a fulfilment of the promises of equality and justice made by the Nehruvian nation-state. ![]() It is not suggested, however, that their vision of India was to differ fundamentally from that of Nehru. Indira Gandhi’s Emergency threatened the democratic basis of the Nehruvian nation and was therefore vehemently condemned in the novel, but after the reinstatement of democracy in 1977 a tougher generation was predicted as taking the place of the midnight’s children. In Midnight’s Children Rushdie criticises the Nehruvian nation’s élite and its patriarchal character but does not advocate placing something radically different in its place. Rushdie’s imagining of the nation in The Moor’s Last Sigh is situated in a drastically changed historical context in comparison to the representation of the nation in Midnight’s Children, which takes the Nehruvian secular and inclusive nation as its main model and point of reference. ![]()
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