Representations of History in the Fictions of Salman Rushdie

Pages:158-159
Jaiveer Singh1, Sudhir Narayan Singh2 (Research Scholor, Singhania University, Singhania 1, Department of English, TITS, Bhiwani 2)

The word history is defined as a ‘continuous record of events (esp. public)’ and also alternatively as a ‘systematic or critical account of or research into past events.’ Explicitly, it is a record of facts which has become known to the writer from his personal experience and observation; and then it is extended so as to include facts communicated to him by trustworthy and creditable witnesses. History, till recently, believed in the invincibility of facts, which were supposed to be sacred and historians pledged by their scientific objectivity and the empiricism. J.B. Bury in 1903 described: