Abstract
The Indo-Anglican Fiction writer Salman Rushdie’s subjective nature of historical novel Midnight’s Children reflects the lives of common people pre- and post-colonial Literature of India. The novel is about India and its sub-continent with deep insights of the people and their sufferings. For centuries India was ruled by Kings, Invaders so Indians lived like not as physical slaves but also mental slaves. They hadn’t their own ideology. British colonialism made Indians more miserable. There was no freedom of expression and basic rights to the people. The post-colonialism is a new concept came out of elite intelligentsia, the free independent India where to provide freedom to everybody. The term magic-realism appeared in 1955 by the German critic Franz Rob. Gabriel Gracia, Colombian novelist, in his novel One Hundred years of Solitude used a new concept Magic Realism or Magical Realism. Rushdie preferred the concept, used the term occasionally to narrate fiction. Magic realism is a concept blend History with Myth. Rushdie, through this novel he brought out real history of India through Saleem Sinai who is the protagonist of Midnight’s Children.
Keywords: Indo-anglican, Colonialism, Magic realism, Protagonist, Historical influence
