A*

Abbott, Edwin (see Flatland)

ablutions (see water)

Abu Simbel, Karim (`the Grandee') (character) 96-108, 113-114, 120-121, 125, 360-361, 369-372, 374, 381-382, 392-393

Actors' Equity 163

'Ad 320

Adam 99, 323, 336

Aeneid 404 (Virgil)

Aeschylus (see The Eumenides)

Aethiopia 96

Africa, African 173, 345, 414, 455

Afro-Caribbean 451

Aga Khan 26, 209

Ahab, Captain 435 (see Moby Dick)

Aids 284

Airbus 486

Airstrip One 459 (see London, 1984)

Akbar, the Mughal Emperor 16, 190, 334

Akbar and Birpal 16

Akhtar, Mirza Saeed (character) 216-221, 227-234, 237-240, 474-487, 489-507

Akhtar, Mishal (`Mishu') (character) 216, 218, 220-221, 226-234, 238-239, 474-475, 477-479, 484-486, 488-491, 493-500, 502-505

Akkad, Moustapha (see The Message, Mohammad, Al-Risalah)

Albany 422

alcohol 26, 66, 72, 95-96, 116-117, 145, 172-173, 182, 209, 231, 268-269, 267, 279, 296, 310, 313, 317, 337, 366-367, 374, 385-386, 388, 402, 410-411, 433-434, 452; abstination from a. 26, 208

Alice in Wonderland 6, 55, 418: Cheshire Cat 166; Munchkins 55 (Carroll)

Alien (film) 62 (Scott)

Alien, Maxim & Mamma (characters) 62-63, 140, 267; The

Aliens Show 62-63, 260, 264-265, 267, 285, 406, 517

Alien Korns 62 (see "Ode to a Nightingale")

Alien Nation 62, 206

All-India Radio 542

All the President's Men (film) 265 (Woodward)

Allah 30, 49, 92, 99, 110, 111, 210, 236, 247, 363, 373-374, 244, 502, 536 (see God)

Alleluia, Allie (see Cone)

Alphaville (film) 4, 439 (Godard; see London)

the Alps 86

Altered States (film) 427 (Russell)

Amalekites 99

Amazonic 54 (see women/men)

America, Americans 52, 63, 76-77, 80, 182, 207, 209-211, 262, 265, 268, 274, 298, 348, 517, 403, 415, 418; Amrika 56, 70, 473; New Rome 369; the United States 399, 517; US 177; USA 70, 485; Yankee 211

Amin (character) 440

Amin, Idi 54

Amitabh (see Bachchan)

Amos 323 (see Bible)

amphisbaenae 117

Anarkali 334

Anatolia 96, 98, 101

Angel Underground 328

El Angel Exterminador (film) 439 (Bunuel)

Anglo Saxon 163

Angrez (see British)

Annapurna 82

Apocalypse 285, 305, 493

Apocrypha 323

Apuleius, Lucius 243-244 (see The Golden Ass)

Aqabah 103

Arab, Arabic 340, 365, 496, 524

Arabia 95

Arabia Orodifera 95

Arabian Nights 36, 60, 342, 443; Aladdin 36, 461; Ali Baba 56, 377; Sinbad 69, 117, 212

Arabian Sea 475, 477, 482, 488, 494, 500, 504, 507, 543, 546

Arafat, Yassir 261

Aravindan 440

L'Argent du Poche (film) 302 (Truffaut)

Argentina 143, 145, 150, 152, 268

Ariadne 24 (see myths, Spider-Woman)

Armagnac 268-269 (see alcohol)

Armani 448, 456

Armenia 61

Art Deco 347

Aryan 52

Ascot 412

Asia, Asian 53, 341, 352, 415, 432, 451, 455; A. Minor 516

Asimov, Isaac 40 (see Foundation)

Asmodeus 76 (see Devil)

Assam 56-57, 73

Assyrian A. language 459; A. Sphinx 117

Astarte 99

astrophysics (see big bang, dark stars, supernova)

Attallah, Attaullah 248 (see Shakespeare, Othello)

Australia 54; Matilda the Australien 62

Automobile Association 163

Ayesha (character) the Empress 206, 209-215; "Ayesha" the prostitute 379-385, 388, 393-394, 460; Billimoria as Ayesha 513; Mahound's wife 366, 379, 381-383, 386-387, 393-394; the Prophet 219-226, 229, 231-236, 238-240, 335, 473, 475-478, 480-507

Azazel 321

Azraeel 394, 397, 416, 432, 448, 457, 459-461, 463,480

Azrael 181

B*

Baal (character) 97-102, 104, 108, 113, 121, 126, 335, 359, 361-366, 368-370, 375-392; a poet's work 97; love poems 390-391; death of B. 391-392

Babel a-babeling 84; `babilu' (the Gate of God) 459; India's B. 58

Babington, Jorge (character) 145, 150, 153-154

Babylon 4, 212, 459 (see London)

Bachchan, Amitabh 63, 73, 341

Bacon, Francis 62

Banerji, Bibhutibhushan 245

Bangladesh, Bangladeshi 243, 259, 283, 350, 414; `Bungleditch' 259; East Wing 243 (see Pakistan)

Bank of England 201

Bapsy (character) 183

Baranczak, Stanislaw 297

Barkers department store 205

Barrie, James (see Peter Pan)

Bartica on the Essequibo (Guyana) 193

Basra 96

Battle Hill 130

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" 447 (Howe)

Battleship Potemkin (film) (Eisenstein)

Battuta, Billy (character) 260-263, 272, 274, 345-347, 349-350, 420-422, 426, 429, 431

Battuta, Ibn 260

Baum, Frank L. (see The Wizard of Oz)

Bayswater 295

BBC 414

Beatles 163, 355 (see "Let It Be")

Beaton, Cecil 298

Beattock 431

the Beauty and the Beast 282

Beckett, Samuel 340

Beecher Stowe, Harriet (see Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Beelzebub 76, 167, 332, 408 (see Devil)

Begin, Menachem 261

Belief/Unbelief 29, 68, 190-191, 193, 225, 236-237, 239, 379, 476, 481; imported Europeanatheism 238; grand narratives 537; imposing world-view 537; secularism 29, 43, 135, 246

Benares, Benarsi (Varanasi) 74

Bengal, Bengali 243, 250, 398, 440, 451, 536

Bentham, Jeremy 421-422

Bentine (Michael) 403 (see The Goons)

Berlin 316; B. Wall 347

Besant, Annie 24

Bexhill-upon-Sea 139

Bhopal 52, 56

Bibiji (character) 217, 235, 482

the Bible 353-354; Genesis (`The Fall' 3) 332, (daughters of men 6:4) 321, (Babel 11:1-9) 58, (22) 17, (Jacob 32:24-32) 123; Exodus (God 3:14) 182, 289, (escape 13:21-22) 468, (Red Sea 14) 236, (Moses 34:35) 105; Joshua (Jericho 6) 87, (hewers 9:21) 413; Isaiah (Lucifer 14:12) 76, (lamb 53:7); Jeremiah (lamb 53:7) 270; Amos (God and evil 3:6) 323; Apocrypha 323; The Book of Chronicles 323; Psalms (`Super flumina' 137) 175-176; Matthew (4:1-11) 23, (mote and beam 7:3) 278, (precisious pearl 13:45-46) 297, (Peter 26:69-75) 402; Mark (John the Baptist 1:1-4) 351, (Jesus 8:29) 460; Luke (23:34) 47 John (beginning 1:1) 296; Acts (gift of tongues 2:1-15) 299; Revelation 245, (Satan 12:9) 133, (Babylon 17) 212

big bang 4 (see astrophysics)

Big Ben 38, 337

Big Eid 276

Bilal (character) 101, 102, 104-107, 117-118, 370; B. &

the boulder 43, 102, 153

Bilal X (character) 207, 210-212

Billimoria, Pimple (character) 12-13, 108, 344-345, 351, 513, 540 (see The Parting of the Arabian Sea)

Billy the Kid (see Bonney)

Binaca 53

Birth 3-6, 8, 87, 126; (see rebirth, evolution, Creation)

Black Maria 141-142, 157-164

Black Power 414

the Black Stone 235, 381 (see House of the B.S., Ka'aba)

Blade Runner (film) 268 (Scott)

Blake, William 304, 318, 338 (see The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

Blanchflower, Danny 161

blasphemy 22, 49, 66, 69, 102, 209, 233, 236, 272, 288, 331, 374, 380, 483, 539

Blofeld 267 (see Fleming)

Bloom's 297-298, 338

Bluto 67 (see Popeye)

BMX 439

Bower, Boffin 422 (see Our Mutual Friend

Bohemia 61, 397

Bombay 11, 16-18, 28, 35, 37, 38, 48, 55, 63-64, 136, 148, 168, 197, 248, 269, 288, 409, 511, 513, 517, 535, 537, 540-541 (see Mumbai)

Bombay Tiffin Carriers Association (BTCA) 19

Bonaparte, Napoleon 338

Bond, James (007) Blofeld 267, For Your Eyes Only 7, Pussy

Galore 460 (Goldfinger) (Fleming)

Boney M 175

Boniek, Professor (character) 348-349, 356, 442

Bonney, William (Billy the Kid) 263, 456

Book 211; b. a pact with the Devil 459; b. revered 311; kissing b. 311

Boorman, John (see Excalibur)

Bosse, Harriet 442

Bostan (see Paradise)

Bostan 3, 9, 17-18, 31, 140, 158, 172, 340, 352, 511, 515

Botticelli "Venus" 61

Boudicca, Queen 459

the boulder (see Bilal)

Brabourne Stadium 37

Bradbury, Ray Martian Chronicles 40

Bradford 262

Brandauer, Klaus Maria 417

Braniff 266 (see Wells)

Breach Candy Hospital 28, 52, 529-530

Brecht, Bertold Mahagonny 3 (see London); "The Whiskey Song" 3

Brickhall 182-184, 196, 283, 340, 352, 437, 441, 447, 449-451, 454, 461, 463-464, 469, 538, 540

Brick Lane (see Brickhall, The Wizard of Oz yellowbricklane)

Brighton 139

Britain, Britannia (see England)

British 52, 80, 140, 146, 150, 153, 155-156, 163-164, 183, 191, 230, 238, 257, 259, 268, 296-298, 316, 341, 343-345, 349, 352-355, 398, 406, 415, 418, 421, 423-426, 439, 441, 458, 518, 528, 534, 536, 538, 542; Angrez 53, 316 (see England)

Brixton 352, 452

Broadway 421

Brown, Eustace (character) 27-28

Brown, Melville (see Check and Double Check)

Brunel, Jack (character) 315-318, 348

Bruno, Joe (`Joey', `Moaner') (character) 139-141, 158-162, 164

Brunswick 484

Brutus 316 (see Shakespeare Julius Caesar)

Buddha 20, 224, 277 (see Gautama)

Buenos Aires 137, 146

The Bumper Book of Fairy Tales 197

Bunuel, Louis (see El Angel Exterminador)

Burgundy 209, 269 (see alcohol)

Burleigh, H.T. (see Bible Joshua 6)

Burton, Richard 36

Busybee 13

butterflies 24, 217, 397, 477-496, 501-502, 506, 536 (see Suraj)

Byron, Lord Byronic 444 (see "The Destruction of Sennacherib)

C*

Caesar, Julius 245

Cactus Flower (film) 18 (Saks)

California 349, 431, 433, 442

Calvinist 285

Camden 447

Camus, Albert 415

Canada, Canadian accent 74, 78, 485, 512

cannibalism 52 (long pork); Cannibals and Christians 184 (Mailer)

Cape Comorin (Kanya Kumari) 27

Caribbean 414, 455

Carlisle 431, 346

Carmen 397 (see Meilhac & Halevy)

Carmichael, Stokely 414

Carne, Marcel (see Les Enfants du Paradis)

Carradine, David 278

Cassidy, Butch 456

Carroll, Lewis (see Alice in Wonderland)

Catullus (see "Ode 101")

Celebrity 16

Cervantes (Miguel C. de Saavedra) (see Don Quixote)

Cezanne, Paul 297

Chamber of Horrors 343 (see Madame Tussaud's)

Chamcha, Pamela (see Lovelace)

Chamcha, Saladin (character) 3-10, 17, 31, 33-87, 243-245, 251-271, 273-277, 279-280, 282-291, 293-294, 397-419, 421-448, 454, 457, 463-469, 511-538, 540-547; old Chumch 3, 83, 85, 131, 355, 428, 464; born Salahuddin Chamchawala 45, 521-547; Salad 435; Salad baba 3, 53, 61, 428, 518, 541, 543; Sallu 44; Sally Spoon 83; Snoot 177; Spoono 3, 83, 131, 428, 434, 436, 439, 464, 467, 543-545; chamcha 83; C. & the kipper 44

Chamchawala, Changez (character) 36-39, 63-72, 511, 513-515, 520-533, 543, 546

Chamchawala, Nasreen (character) 39, 64, 521

Chamchawala, Nasreen II (character) 47, 64, 67, 511, 520-533, 535, 543, 546

chameleon (see mutation)

Chanakya 42

Chance Wood 326

Chandela period 12; C. bronzes 70

Chanukah 342

Charles I 220, 230

Charles II 340

Charringtons Brewery 450

Charulata 342

Chase, Chevy 77 (see Foul Play)

Chateau Talbot 182 (see alcohol)

Chatnapatna 221, 223, 234, 474-476

Chaudhuri, Nirad 398

Check and Double Check (film) (see "Three Little Words") (Brown)

Cheshire Cat 166 (see Alice in Wonderland)

Chesterfield 67

Chevalier, Maurice 266

Childhood's End 536 (see Clarke)

children c. of God 222 (see Gandhi, M.); son is a blessing 19

childlessness 50, 218

chimera (see mutation)

China, Chinese 96, 196-197, 341, 414; Chinee 296

Cho Oyu 295

Chola Natraj 14

Chomolungma 82, 175, 301, 446 (see Everest)

Christ (Jesus) 84, 168-169, 252, 255, 346; Isa 118

Christian 38, 75, 368, 420, 458

Chu Chin Chow (film) 327

Cicone, Madonna (see Madonna)

Cine-Blitz (Blitz) 13, 271-272, 478

Circassian 376

Circe 24, 484

Citizen Kane (film) 439 (Welles)

Citroen 431-432, 437-438

Civis Britannicus sum 397

Claridge's Hotel 532

Clarke, Arthur C. (see Childhood's End)

Claudette (character) 147

Cleopatra's Needle 334

Coca-Cola 52, 239, 278, 478; Coca-Colonization 406

Cochin 76

Cohen, Alicja (Cone, Boniek) (character) 295-299, 301, 310, 314, 338-339, 348-349, 356, 431-433, 442

Cohen, Elena (`Yelyena,' `Elleynah', `Yel') (character) 297, 305-307, 312

Cohen (Cone), Otto (character) 295, 306, 309-311, 314, 348, 406, 432-433, 442

Colaba 14

Coleridge, Samuel (see "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")

Collingwood Expedition 195

colonialism 37

Colossus 337

Columbus, Kristoffer 54

Communism 248, 296, 306, 312, 537-538, 541-542

Cone, Alleluia (Allie) (character) 30-31, 144, 156, 194-199, 202, 295-319, 321, 324, 333-334, 336-339, 355-356, 409, 417, 421-422, 425, 428-438, 441-447, 454, 457-458, 463, 466, 515, 538, 540-542, 544-546; ice-woman 8, 85, 195, 515; ice-queen 309, 422

Cone Mountain 92-93, 106-107, 109, 112, 120-124, 126, 367

Constantinople 37

Corinthian 231

Cornwell, Cornish 266

Covent Garden 439

Crab Nebula 62

Creation 5 (see birth, evolution)

Crimea 292

Crockford's 421

Crusoe (see Robinson Crusoe)

Cruz, Martin de la (character) 138, 143, 147-149, 151-153, 155, 190

Cuba 266, 312

The Curtain (Hijab) 376-385, 387-391

Cyprus, Cypriot 326, 414

D*

dabbawalla/s 11, 331

Daedalus 5 (see Joyce, myths)

the Daily 13

Dajjal 371

Dalai Lama 84

Dante, Joe (see Gremlins)

Darwin, Charles 75, 77, 418; The Origin of Species 251

Datta Samant 55

David 175 (see Bible)

Death 3, 19-20, 46, 53, 71, 306, 308, 415, 527-531, 533; suicide 14-15, 16, 181, 215, 230, 238, 260, 298, 324, 333, 476, 516, 517, 546; d. of Akhtar 506-507; d. of Baal 392; d. of Changez 531-533; d. of Gibreel 546; d. of Madame 388; d. of Mahound 393-394; d. of Simba; d. of Hind and Muhammad Sufyan 465; d. of the villagers 503

Deep Throat 265

"The Defence" 311 (Nabokov)

Defoe, Daniel The History of the Devil epilogue; (see Robinson Crusoe)

Delhi, Old 519

della Femina, Jerry 266

DeMille, Cecil B. (see The Ten Commandments)

Depo-Provera 252

Desdemona 425 (see Shakespeare, Othello)

Desh 206-208, 210

"The Destruction of Sennacherib" 134 (see Byron)

Deutero-Isaiah 323 (see Bible)

Devi, Phoolan bandit queen 13, 58, 263

Devil 164, 191, 224, 233, 238-239, 245, 248, 250-251, 253-255, 257, 274, 285-287, 290, 294, 323, 331, 353-354, 373, 418, 420, 430, 441, 459, 484, 499, 526, 539; D. as an atribute of God 323, 518 (see Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Fiend, the Goat, Iblis, Lucifer, the Master of Hell, Neechayvala, the Prince of Darkness, Satan, Saturn, Shaitan)

Dhaka 243, 245, 249

Dharma Bums 174 (Kerouac)

Dharmendra 350

Dhaulagiri 82, 303

Dhobi Talao 536

Diamond, Henry (Enrique) (character) 138-139, 141, 143, 145-146, 148, 150-151, 153, 155-156, 211, 318

Diamond, Rosa (character) 129-130, 132-134, 137-156, 167, 205, 322, 334, 426-427

Dickens, Charles 421, 424, 430-431; The Old Curiosity Shop 423; Our Mutual Friend (`Friend,' `The Chums') 421-424 (see Bower, Fledgeby, Hexam, Podsnap)

Din, Khadija (character) 225, 477, 479-480, 504

Din, Sarpanch Muhammad (character) 225, 235-238, 477, 479-480, 483, 493, 495, 498, 500, 502-505 (see Kipling "The Story of Muhammad Din")

Dionysos 99

Disco Diwane 350 (Hasan)

discrimination 43

Disney, Walt 317 (see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

doggerel 444-445

Don Quixote 429 (Cervantes)

Donner, Richard (see The Omen)

Doordarshan TV 14, 542

Dorchester 342

dowry 250

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 340 (Stevenson)

Dr. Strangelove (film) 402 (Kubrick)

Dr. Who (film) 405

Dracula 407; Transsylvanian bloodsucker 425 (Stroker)

dream 34, 158, 184, 205, 209, 211, 220, 226, 234, 273, 285-286, 289, 294, 304, 319, 331, 339-341, 367, 369-70, 372, 376, 384, 390, 393-394, 433, 457, 461-462, 469, 479, 487-488, 491, 515-516, 524, 540; bicycle 400, 411, 439; nightmare 165, 216, 218, 256, 273, 406-407, 409, 449-450, 516 (see sleep)

Dresden 65

drugs 306-307, 455, 520, 534; afeem (opium) 76, 96; brown sugar 456, 520; cocaine 76, 456; crack 456; hashish 76, 96, 456; LSD 315 (acid), 306 (sugar-lump)

Dumfries 443

Dumsday, Eugene (character) 75-7, 79, 418, 468

Durisdeer 433

Dustin 321 (see Hoffman)

Dutch 205, 458

Dylan, Bob "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" 415

Dynasty 265

E*

Earl's Court 349-350, 352

East European accent 297

Eastbourne 139, 191

Eastbourne-Victoria Line 191

Eccklefechan 431

Eclogues 248 (Virgil)

Eden 324, 332, 352

Egypt, Egyptian 91, 96, 103, 382

Eisenstein, Sergei (see Battleship Potemkin)

Elba 205

Elena (see Cohen, E.)

The Elephant Man (film) 275 (Lynch)

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

Elizabeth I, Queen (see Gloriana, Virgin Queen)

Elizabeth II, Queen 169

"Elusive Butterfly" 397 (Lind)

Elvanfoot 431

Embankment 302, 336

Empire Pool 398

Empire Way 398

the Empress (see Ayesha)

Les Enfants du Paradis (film) 34 (Carne)

England 37, 39, 68, 86-87, 132, 146, 153, 155, 158, 175, 180, 186, 248, 262, 270, 292, 322, 348, 434, 469; Britannia 175, 398; Vilayet 31, 35, 37, 248, 249, 276, 283, 425; Yuke 248

English (see British)

the English Channel 3, 8-9; the English Sleeve 5

Enoch Arden (Tennyson)

Eros 174, 407

Esperanto 406

Eton 316

The Eumenides 429 (Aeschylus)

Europe, European 86, 230, 238, 345, 485

Eurovision 63

Euston Station 452

Evans, Cadwallader (character) 152

Eve 324

Everest, Mount 3-4, 85, 195-199, 211, 295-296, 302-304, 308-310, 345, 417, 435, 444, 446, 540, 545-546 (see Chomolungma)

Everest Vilas 13-15, 26, 539, 542, 545

evolution 5, 418 (see Creation, birth)

Excalibur (film) (Boorman) (see Malory)

F*

Faiz, Faiz Ahmed 334-335

Fair Winds 418, 447-448, 456

Fakkhar 528

Falkland Road 52

Falklands war 175, 268

Family Planning 224-225, 475, 489

Fanon, Franz 353

Farishta, Gibreel (character) 3-32, 55, 63, 75-76, 80-87, 130-134, 138-156, 189-195, 197-198, 200-202, 211-216, 251, 256, 260, 271-274, 294, 296, 299-305, 307-328, 330-356, 407-409, 417-418, 421-448, 451, 457-464, 466-469, 479, 488, 491, 513-515, 538-546; the archangel 83, 91, 106-112, 211, 225-226, 231-232, 234-240, 272, 315, 320, 345, 363-366, 367, 370, 372, 376, 386-387, 390, 393, 447, 461, 479-480, 482, 497-499, 501-502, 513, 544; Gibbo 7; born Ismail Najmuddin (star of the faith) 17, 272 (see Mahound, The Parting of the Arabian Sea)

Farrakhan, Louis 450

Farsi (see Salman)

Fascism, neo- 277, 283, 311 (see Nazis)

father 37, 40-41, 43, 47, 411, 513-514, 523; godlike f. 48

Faust 417, 459 (Goethe)

Fawkes, Guy 291, 293

Le Fay, Morgan 144 (see Morte D'Arthur)

Fellini, Federico (see Otto e Mezzo)

fiction 51, 192, 272, 352, 429, 437

Field, Eugen (see "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod")

Fiend 209 (see Devil)

Filmmela 350

Finland, Finnish 266

Finn's Thumb 179

Finnegans Wake 261, 528 (see Joyce)

FitzGerald, Edward 397

Flatland 261 (Abbott)

Fledgeby, Fascination 422 (see Our Mutual Friend)

Fleet Street 447

Fleming, Ian (see Bond, Blofeld, For Your Eyes Only, Galore, Goldfinger)

Flintstones 42

For Your Eyes Only 7 (see Bond)

Foras Road 539

forbidden foods 29, 364-365, 378

Ford 451

Foul Play (film) 77 (Higgins)

Foundation 40 (Asimov)

France, French 86, 205, 261, 418, 440

Frankenstein 344, 348 (Shelley)

Freekirk 433-435

Freemasonry 280

Friday 439 (see Crusoe)

Friends Meeting House 416

fundamentalism Hindu f. 52, 536; Islamic f. 517, 536

futurism 311

G*

Gabriel, the archangel 274 (see Farishta)

Gagari 536

Galloway 443

Galore, Pussy (see Bond)

Gama, Vasco da 76

Gandhi, Bhupen (character) 53-57, 518, 536-537, 540-541

Gandhi, Indira PM 28, 488, 490

Gandhi, Mahathma 18, 222

Gandhi, Rajiv 56

Gandhi, Sanjay 28

Ganesh 24-25; Ganpati Baba 24

Garbo, Greta 25

Garcia Marquez (see One Hundred Years of Solitude)

gargoyle 64

Garrick Club 163

Gateway of India 537

Gautama 16 (see Buddha)

gazal (ghazal) 3, 8

geep 348

Gehenna 254 (see Hell, London)

Geographer's London, A to Z 156, 322, 326 (see London)

George IV 292

Germans, Germany 152, 181, 183, 317, 321, 417; Chermans 260 (see Jerry)

Ghatak, Ritwik 440

ghost 22, 61, 146, 182, 194-197, 199, 220, 232, 250, 295, 304, 307-308, 368, 434, 515, 540; ghoulies 251

Gibreel (see Farishta)

Ginsberg, Allen (see Howl)

Gitanjali 248 (see Tagore)

Glass Bertha 169

Glenn 176

Gloriana 280 (see Elizabeth I)

Goa 398

the Goat 255 (see Devil)

God 10, 16-17, 21, 24-26, 30, 48-49, 76, 81-82, 95, 105, 111, 112, 121, 135, 158, 169, 182, 185, 189, 190-191, 198, 211, 214, 216, 222, 227, 232-232, 238-240, 247, 259, 262, 272, 304-305, 318-321, 323-325, 332, 336, 353-354, 364, 371-373, 386, 394, 418, 440, 447-448, 457, 461, 476, 483, 491, 497, 500, 503, 518, 531-532, 536-537, 544-545; act of G. 28-29; between Allahgod and homosap92; Allah-worship 69; allgood allahgod 92; Christian guard 75; death of g. 16, 43; dignity of g. 25; Guard Almighty 75; management skills à la g. 92; playing G. 49; predestination 35; vengeance of G. 3 (see Allah, Ishvar, Ooparvala)

Godard, Jean-Luc (see Alphaville)

Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von (see Faust)

Golden Ass 243-244 (Apuleius)

Golden Bough, the myth of 398 (see myths)

Golden Gate Bridge 262

Gondwanaland 417

"Goodness Gracious Me" 51 (see Sellers, P.)

The Goodsway 459-460

The Goons (The Goon Show) (film) 406 (see Bentine, Milligan, Sellers)

gopis 16

Gordon's Gin 433

Gothenburg 26

Gramsci, Antonio 85; G. chestnut 3, 15, 31, 84, 547

Grand Canyon 224, 473, 489

grand narratives 537

Grand Panjandrum 207, 435

Grandee (see Abu Simbel)

Granger (character) 147

Granny Ripper (character) 287-289, 408, 411, 450, 453, 456

Grant Road 37

The Great Escape (film) 179 (Sturges)

Greece, Grecian, Greek 23, 113, 179, 206, 268, 271, 362 (see Myths)

Gremlins (film) 182 (Dante)

Gretna Green 431

Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw 292

Grosvenor Marbles 182

Grosvenor Square 347

gryphons 117

"Guantanamera" 312

Gujranwala 159

gulag (see Siberia)

Gulistan (see Paradise)

Gulistan 245, 512

Gurdijeff, Gregory S. 299

Guy (see Fawkes)

Guyana 191, 405

Gwalior 342

H*

Hackney 447, 450

Hadrian's Wall 431

`Hafsah' (character) 382-384, 460

Hagar 91, 95, 99, 101

Haggard, H. Rider (see She)

Haiti, Haitians 452

Halevy, Ludovic & Henri Meilhac Carmen 397

Hamelin (the pied piper) 484

Hamlet (see Shakespeare Hamlet)

Hamza 70, hamza-nama 69, 104, 292

Hamza (character) 104-108, 111-113, 115-118, 121, 124-125, 361, 372, 393

Handel, Georg Friedrich Messiah 194

Hanover 484

Hanuman 24

Haram Sharif 235

Hare Krishna 174

harem 24, 387

Harold Arroweye 130

Harrison, Rex 424

Harrods 137

Hasan, Nazia (see Disco Diwane)

Hastings 130, 139

Hauer, Rutger 268 (see Blade Runner)

Hawn, Goldie 18 (see Cactus Flower)

Heinz 286

Hell 132, 158, 239, 254, 274, 282, 290, 292-293, 295, 304-305, 307, 325, 332, 364, 414, 440, 463 (see Gehenna, Jahannum)

Hemingway, Ernest (see Islands in the Stream)

Henley, William Ernest (see "Invictus")

Henty, G.A. 229

He-Of-Shara 99

Herbert, Zbigniew 297

Hesse, Herman Der Steppenwolf 252

Heston, Charlton 132 (see The Ten Commandments)

Hexam, Gaffer 422, 431, 518 (see Our Mutual Friend)

Higgins, Colin (see Foul Play)

High Street 462, 465, 516

Highgate 266, 269

Higham, Henry (`Hang'em') (character) 182

Hijab 376 (see the Curtain)

Hijaz 93

hijras 54

Hillary, Sir Edmund H. Step 303

Himalayas 4, 194, 198, 303-309, 401, 417, 446

Himchal Pradesh 535

Hind 70

Hind (character) 96, 100-102, 113-115, 118-121, 124-125, 301, 360-361, 369-372, 374-376, 382, 392-394 (see Sufyan, H.)

Hindi 250, 260, 262, 338

Hindu 46, 70, 91, 474, 476, 519, 536; H. fundamentalism 52, 536

Hindustan 54

Hindustani 58

hippogriffs 120

Hispano-Suiza 151-152

history 59, 427, 432; Imam 209-215

Hit 99

Hitler, Adolf 316 (Hawful Hadolf) (see Toff)

Ho Chi Minh 177-178, 399

Hockley Farm 326

Hoffman, Dustin 321

Holbrook, Hal 265

Holiday Inn 500

Holloway 422

homosexuality 23, 25, 38, 61, 122, 157-8, 408

Hong Kong 24, 342

Hopkins, Matthew (`Witchfinder General') 182, 280

Hot Wax Club 284, 291-294, 401, 447, 451, 454-457

Hounslow 208, 446

the House of the Black Stone 94, 96-101, 103, 107, 116, 124, 359, 372-373 (see Ka'aba)

Howard the Duck (film) 401 (Huyck)

Howe, Julia Ward (see "Battle Hymn of the Republic")

(Howl 312 (Ginsberg)

Hubal (Abel) 99, 373

Huguenots 285

Hungary, Hungarian 299

Hurlingham (character) 147

Huyck, Willard (seeHoward the Duck)

Hyacinth (see myths, Phillips)

Hyderabad 246

I*

"I Sing the Body Eclectic" 405 (see Whitman)

"I Sing the Body Electric" 405 (Whitman)

Iago 315, 424, 466 (see Shakespeare, Othello)

Iblis 327, 332, 353-354 (see Devil)

Ibrahim 17, 91, 95, 96, 116

Ibrahim the butcher (character) 377-378

Icarus 307 (see myths)

The Illustrated Weekly 16

The Imam (character) 205-216, 234, 345; I. of Delhi 519; the mosque's I. 496, 498

Imitation of Life (film) 298 (Sirk)

India, Indian 28-29, 35, 51, 56-8, 151, 167, 181, 230, 246, 250, 271, 286, 292, 299, 310, 339, 342, 344-345, 349-350, 414, 417, 436, 512, 514, 518, 536-537

India House 511

Indian Express 517

insomnia (see sleep)

Inspector (character) 474-475

intentionalist fallacy 427

"Intimations of Immortality" 483 (Wordsworth)

"Invictus" 256 (Henley)

Iran 207

Ireland, Irish 408, 458

Isa 118 (see Christ)

Isa the carpenter (character) 237

Isandhlwana 461

Isaiah 318, 338

Ishmael 435 (see Moby Dick)

Israel 423

Ishvar 111 (see God)

Islam 221, 223, 323, 489-490; Submission 125, 289; pre-Islamic 488

Islands in the Stream 516 (Hemingway)

Islington 281

Ismail 17, 91, 95, 99, 101

the Ismailis 209

Italians, Italy 191, 265

Ithuriel 324

J*

Jack the Ripper 456

Jackson, Jessie 192 (rainbow coalition)

Jackson, Mahalia 298

Jahannum 254 (see Hell, London)

Jahilia 93, 98-100, 102-107, 109, 114-117, 119, 124-126, 215, 305, 345, 356, 359-361, 363-373, 375-376, 378, 381-382, 384-385, 388, 390-393; navel of the earth 98-99

Jahweh 323

Jains 55

Jaipur 342

Jaisalmer 26; lattices 70

Jalandri 82, 86

Jamaica, Jamaican 283

James, Henry (Sr.) 397

the James Brothers 456

Jamme Masjid 285 (see Juma M.)

Japan, Japanese 135, 261, 266, 268, 317, 490

Jarry, Alfred Ubu Roi 297

Jayapradha (`Jaya') 350

Jerry 138 (see Germans)

Jerusalem 110, 176, 212; slippery word 212 (see miraj)

Jesus (see Christ)

Jewish 60-61, 90, 96, 184, 261, 268, 289, 296, 298, 300, 368, 382

"Jingle Bells" 131

Joan of Arc 186

John the Baptist 351

Johnson, Hanif (character) 185-186, 271, 278, 280, 285, 287, 289-291, 293-294, 401, 409, 411, 415, 440, 449-451, 468-469; wedding 515-516

Jones, Grace 292

Joshi, Jumpy (Jamshed, `Grasshopper') (character) 172-180, 182, 184-188, 243, 256, 259, 272, 277-281, 287-289, 343, 401, 403, 405, 409-412, 415-417, 421, 429-432, 436, 440, 443, 452-453, 459, 515-516; poetry `The River of Blood' 186, 287, 405, 462

Joyce, James Finnegans Wake 261, 528 (see Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses)

Judy 428

juggernaut 254, 354

Julia, Juan (`Vulture') (character) 149, 151, 153-154

Juliet 60 (see Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet)

Juma Masjid 514 (see Jamme M.)

The Jungle Book 176 (Kipling)

Jupiter 23

the Jurhum 91

`Juwairiyah' (character) 382, 460

K*

Ka'aba 235, 238 (see the Black Stone, the House of the Black Stone)

Kain (Cain) 99

Kali (see Kelly, G.)

Kanchenjunga 82

Kane (see Citizen Kane)

Kannada 70

Kanya Kumari (Cape Comorin) 27

Kapoor, Anil (see Mr India)

Kapoor, Raj (see Shree 420 (Charshawbees))

Karim, Abdul (the Munshi) 292

Karnataka 37

Kashmir 65, 246, 342, 518

Kasturba (character) 37, 45, 66-69, 521-530, 532, 535, 543

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

Keaton, Buster Our Hospitality 399

Keats, John (see "Ode to a Nightingale", Alien Korns)

Kelly, Grace Gracekali 25

Kelly, Ned 263, 456

Kentish Town 280

Kenya 140

Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline 179

Kensington 205-207, 210

Kerala 26, 70, 76, 537, 542

Kerleeda (see Singh, Khalida)

Kerouac, Jack (see Dharma Bums)

Kermit the Frog 62, 140 (see The Muppet Show)

Khadija (character) (see Din, K.)

Khadija 321

Khalid (character) 95, 101, 104-105, 107, 112-113, 115, 117-118, 125, 370, 372-377, 381, 391; Imam's son 209-210

Khalistan 511

Khan, Mehboob (see Mother India)

Khanna, Vinod 262, 350

Khayyam, Omar Rubaiyat 397

Khomeini, Ayatollah 450

Khote, Durga 73

Kim (see Novak) (Kipling)

Kimi 350

Kinch, Stephen (character) 449-450, 455, 464-465

King, Henry (see Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)

King's Cross 459

Kipling, Rudyard (see The Jungle Book, Kim, "The Story of Muhammad Din")

kipper 44 (see Chamcha)

kissing books 311 (see Books)

Krishna 16, 55

Kubrick, Stanley (see Dr. Strangelove, The Shining)

Kung Fu (film) 278, 342

Kuri, Yoji (character) 317

Kurla 14

Kurosawa, Akira (see The Seven Samurai)

Kurus 283 (see Mahabharata)

K2 82

L*

Labyrinth (film) 401

Lakshmi 476, 489, 504, 512-513

Lalique, Rene 14-15

Lamarck, Jean 5, 251

Lambrakis 271

Land's End (see World's End)

Lang (character) 266

Las Vegas 64

"The Last Demon" 408 (Singer)

Al-Lat 8, 91, 100, 105, 107, 110, 111, 114, 116, 119-121, 126, 214-215, 301, 359, 371-373, 378, 392, 394, 459; Lato, Ilat 100

Launder, Frank (see The Pure Hell of St Trinian's)

Laurasia 417

Lee, Bruce 244

Lee, Ulysses E. (character) 283

Legend (film) 401

Legree 292, 294 (see Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Leicester Square 445

Lennon, John "Let It Be" 355

Leonardo da Vinci 316, 408

"Let It Be" 355 (see Beatles, Lennon)

Levant, Levantine 326

Levi's 501 271

Leviathan 414, 517

"Light Shining Out of Darkness" 95 (Olney Hymn 33)

Lime, Frank (character) 139, 141-142

Lind, Bob (see "Elusive Butterfly")

Little Black Sambo 294

"Little Red Riding Hood" 136

Liverpool 161, 163

Lockerbie 431

Loire 266

Lolita 269 (nymphet) (Nabokov)

London 140, 171, 189-190, 194, 200-201, 248, 272, 298, 302, 304, 320, 342, 344, 352, 354-356, 398-399, 420-422, 424-425, 437, 439, 443, 446-447, 457-459, 514, 532, 538, 545; Babylondon 459; Ell-ow-en Dee-ow-en 37, 42, 136, 162, 332; Proper L. 3, 35, 200,249, 332, 356, 399, 425, 532; L. shareef 156; (see Airstrip One, Alphaville, Babylon, Gehenna, Geographer's L., A to Z, Jahannum, Mahagonny, Muspellheim)

London Bridge 422, 424-425

Long, Edward 292

Long, Shelley 77 (see Foul Play)

Lords Tavern 38

Los Alamos 138, 145, 147, 151, 154-155

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) 487 (King)

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 287 (Eliot)

Love Story 64 (Sagal)

Lovelace, Pamela (Chamcha, `Pam') (character) 49-50, 53, 59, 85, 135, 169-170, 172-188, 256-257, 277-281, 286, 398-404, 406-414, 416, 421, 425, 429-430, 435, 452-453, 464-465

Lucifer 76, 131, 274 (see Devil)

Lucius Apuleius (see Apuleius)

Lucknow 246

Lucretius 276-277, 288; De Rerum Natura (VI:1, 670-671) 276

Luzhin 311 (see Nabokov)

Lynch, David (see The Elephant Man)

M*

McCarran-Walter Act 399

MacCool, Finn 179

McCoy, genuine (Bill McCoy) 250

machines 311

Machzikel HaDath 285

MacDonald's 183

Machiavelli, Niccolo 401 Il Principe (The Prince) 401, Discorsi 401

MacMurray 308

MacSween (character) 152

Madame of the Curtain (character) 376-377, 380, 383, 388

Madame Tussaud's 343 (see Chamber of Horrors)

Madaura 243

Madonna (Cicone) 245

magic 33, 41, 200, 230, 258, 390, 469, 495, 525; black m. 289; m. lamp 36, 63, 69, 200, 234, 265, 292, 525, 533-534, 543, 546 (see obeah)

The Magnificient Seven (film) 64 (Sturges)

Mahabharata 283; Kurus 283; Mahavilayet 283; Pandavas 283

Mahagonny 4, 459 (see Brecht, London)

Mahmood (character) 207

Mahomet 93 (see Mahound, Muhammad)

Mahon 401 (see Mahound, Muhammad)

Mahound (`Nib') (character) 92-3, 95-96, 101-115, 118-126, 150, 154, 210-211, 335, 359-360, 362-376, 378-384, 386-388, 391-394, 457; Gibreel as M.513; M. the businessman 91-93 (see Mahomet, Mahon, Mahound, MoeHammered, Muhammad)

Mahound (film) 513 (see Farishta)

Mahound's first wife (character) 118-119, 124-125, 366

Mailer, Norman (see Cannibals and Christians)

`Maimunah' (character) 382, 460

Makalu 82

Malabar Hill 13, 542

Malaya Crescent 453

Malcolm X 413

Malory, Thomas (see Morte d'Arthur: Morgan Le Fay 144; Merlin 144)

Mamoulian, Mimi (Mildred) (character) 60-62, 259-263, 269, 274, 346-347, 420-421, 426, 429, 431, 440, 515

Manaf 99

Manaslu 82

al-Manat 91, 99-100, 105, 107, 111, 114, 120, 126, 373, 378

Mandela, Nelson 461

Manet, Edouard "Olympia" 61

Manhattan 349

Mann, Klaus (see Mephisto)

manticore 102, 115-118, 167-171; Manticorps 361

Mao Zedong 296

Marine Drive 13

Marinetti, Filippo Tommasso 311

Market Square 177

Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great 525

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 304-305, 338 (Blake)

Martello Tower 148

The Martian Chronicles 40 (Bradbury)

martyr 86, 213, 489, 491, 519

Marwah 95

Marx, Karl 399; Marxism 53, 537 (see Communism, "The 18th Brumaire")

Mary 168-169

`Mary the Copt' (character) 382-384, 460

Maryam 118

Maserati 261

Maslama, John (character) 190-194, 351, 447-448, 456, 516

Mason, James 341

the Master of Hell 282 (see Devil)

masturbation 36, 182, 444

Matthau, Walter 18 (see Cactus Flower)

Maudsley Hospital 339-340, 344

Maugham, W. Somerset 136

Mazagaon 537, 541

Mecca (M. Sharif) 24, 48, 70, 185, 235-236, 238, 264, 290, 463, 474, 477, 481, 485-486, 498-499, 507, 532

the Medicis 401

Mediterranean accent 179

Medusa 254 (see myths)

Meerut 230, 518-519, 537

Mehta, Jatinder Singh (character) 284

Meilhac, Henri & Ludovic Halevy Carmen 397

Melville, Herman (see Ahab, Ishmael, Moby Dick)

Mephisto (film) 416-417, Mephistophilis 417 (Mann)

Mercedes Benz 29, 64, 239, 262, 453, 465, 474-475, 478-481, 484, 489, 491, 494, 530

Merchant, Rekha 350

Merchant, Rekha (character) 7-9, 14, 25-31, 194, 200-202, 205, 304, 319, 323, 333-336, 430, 539, 542, 545

Merlin 144 (see Morte D'Arthur)

mermaid 132, 135, 140, 197

Mesopotamia 103,

The Message (film) 272 (see Mohammad, Al- Risalah) (Akkad)

Messiah 194 (Handel)

Metamorphoses 276-277 (Ovid)

metamorphosis (see mutation)

Metropolitan Line 201

MG 179, 181, 421, 453, 465

MGR 73 (see Ramachandra)

Mhatre, Babasaheb (character) 19-23, 25

Mhatre, Mrs. (character) 20

Michelin 60, 271

Midatlantic accent 266

Midian 103

Migration 4, 18, 19, 40, 49; pilgrimage (padyatra) 73

Milligan, Spike 403 (see The Goons)

The Millionairess 49, 51, 71 (Shaw, G.B.)

Milosz, Czeslaw 297

Milton, John (see Paradise Lost)

mimicry 9

miracle 9

the miraj 110, 235 (see Jerusalem, Qur'an 17:1)

Miranda (see Shakespeare The Tempest)

Miranda, George (character) 53-58, 536-540

Miss Piggy 62 (see The Muppet Show)

Mistry, Dr. (character) 197

Mithun 350

Moaner Lisa (character) 167

Moby Dick 435, 463 (see Ahab, Ishmael) (Melville)

MoeHammered 93 (see Mahound, Muhammad)

Mohammad (see The Message, Al-Risalah) (Akkad)

"Mona Lisa" 167, 316 (Leonardo)

Monophysites 96

Monotheism/ polytheism 102-3, 105, 109

Monroe, Marilyn 61

Moonlight, Captain 456

the Moor 425 (see Shakespeare, Othello)

Morocco, Moroccan 243, 307

Moscow 356

Moscow Road 298, 300, 348

Moseley, Uriah (`Uri') (character) 328-331

Moses 103, 110; 40 prayers 110

Mosley 292

Mother India (film) 440 (Khan)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 408

Mr India (film) 440 (Kapoor)

the Mughal 16, 26, 52, 70, 480, 488

Mughal-e-Azam (film) 334

Muhammad (the Prophet) 22, 24, 63, 69, 239, 272, 321, 401; orphaned 22, 534 (see Mahomet, Mahon, Mahound, MoeHammered)

Muhammad, Gul (character) 486-487

Muhammad Ali Road 541

Mumbai 17 (see Bombay)

The Muppet Show Kermit 62, 140; Miss Piggy 62

Musa the grocer (character) 378-380

Music of the Spheres 190 (Pythagoras)

Muslim 46, 48, 70, 91, 222-223, 230, 290, 474, 476, 480, 483, 536 (see Islam)

Muspellheim 254 (see London)

mutation, transformation 5, 8, 158, 165, 168, 210, 226, 243, 251, 273, 276, 280, 282, 288, 303, 353-6, 360, 418, 426-427, 540; chameleon 205, 217, 477, 488; chimera 299, 301, 370, 406, 462; continuity/ discontinuity 427; demoniasis 159; hybrid 7, 288, 319, 406; metamorphosis 5, 6-7, 23, 30, 158, 162, 170, 189, 243-244, 253, 271, 276-277, 303, 321, 354, 401, 405-406, 427, 433, 516; m. of Saladin 33; mutey 282 (see Ovid)

Muttalib of the Scarlet Tents 92, 306

myths, mythology 283, 294 (see Ariadne, Daedalus, Golden Bough, m. of Greece and Rome, Hyacinth, Icarus, Medusa, Narcissus, Pandora, Pygmalion)

N*

Nabateans 96, 99

Nabokov, Vladimir "The Defence" 311; Lolita 269 (nymphet); Pale Fire 441 (quote)

Najmuddin, Naima (character) 18-9, 91

Najmuddin, Senior (character) 19-20

Nakruh 99

Namche Bazar 303

Nandi bulls 71

Nanga Parbat 82, 303

Napoleon brandy 182 (see alcohol)

Narcissus 24 (see myths)

narrator 4, 8, 10, 408-9, 457

Nasr 99

National Front 283

NatWest Tower 399

natyam (bharatanatyam) 74

Nazis 152, 295, 298, 416; Nastiparts 316; Nazified 399 (see Fascism, Toff)

Neechayvala (the Guy from Underneath) 318, 323-325, 409 (see Devil)

al-Nefzawi, Sheikh (see The Perfumed Garden)

Nescafe 257

Never-Never 55 (see Peter Pan) (Barrie)

New Cross 285

New York 261-262, 274, 342, 349, 420, 426

News of the World 418

Nietzsche, Friedrich 216

Nigel (character) 346

Nigeria, Nigerians 168, 183

Nightingale, Florence 292

nightmare (see dream, sleep)

Nightmare on Elm Street (film) 252

de Niro, Robert 448, 456

Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika 415

Nobel Prize for Literature 408

nomadic 94

Norfolk 61

Normandy 61

Normans 129-130, 134, 138

Notting Hill 59, 278, 280, 409, 453

Novak (`Kim,' `Hisser') (character) 139-141, 157-160, 162-164 (see Kipling Kim)

Nubia 96

Numbers:

39 443

101 36, 85, 192, 217, 256

11177

420 4, 18, 31, 73

1,000 23, 443

1,001 21, 26, 60, 205, 215, 234, 285, 370, 405, 443

nymphet (see Lolita)

O*

obeah 280, 330-331 (see magic)

occultism 21 (physic), 24 (theosophy) (see magic, obeah)

"Ode to a Nightingale" 62 (Keats)

"Ode 101" 418 (Catullus)

Ogilvy, David 266

The Old Curiosity Shop 423 (see Dickens)

"The Old Man of the Sea" 69, 212 (see Arabian Nights `Sinbad')

"Olympia" (Edouard Manet) 61

Olympia 15

om 196

The Omen (film) 252 (Donner)

One Hundred Years of Solitude 217 (see butterfly, Titlipur) (Garcia Marquez)

"The Only Good Indian" 52 (Sheridan)

Ooparvala (the Fellow Upstairs) 318-319, 323-324, 409 (see God)

Op-Art 39, 521

`Opium' 429

Oresteia 429

Orwell, George (see 1984)

Oscar Prize 342

Osho (see Rajneesh)

Osman (character) 221-225, 234-236, 240, 474-475, 483, 491, 493, 502-503

Othello 248, 398, 466 (see Shakespeare, Othello)

Otto e Mezzo (film) 439 (Fellini)

Our Hospitality (film) (Keaton)

l'Ouverture, Toussaint 461

Ovid 276-277, 288; Metamorphoses (XV:250-) 276-277 (see mutation)

Oxford 67

Oxford Circus 201

Oxford Street 259

Oz 55 (see Wizard of Oz)

P*

Padua 316

Pagal Khana 346, 341, 451

Pahlevi, Reza 14, 207-208; SAVAK 207

Pakistan, Pakistani 45, 56, 260, 350, 414, 536; East Wing 243,299 (see Bangladesh)

Pale Fire 441 (Nabokov)

Pali Hill 64, 535-536

Palmyra 103

Pamela (see Lovelace)

Pandavas 283 (see Mahabharata)

Pandemonium 352, 482

Pandora 217 (see myths)

Panikkar, Dr. (character) 528-529

Paradise, Heaven 146-147, 210, 239, 248, 274, 295, 321, 364, 367, 393, 481, 483, 505; Gulistan 31, 245, 364, 512; Bostan 31, 245, 364, 512 (see The Perfumed Garden)

Paradise Lost 324 (Milton)

Paris 350

Parker-Knoll 405, 407

Parsi 38, 183

Partido Socialista 176

The Parting of the Arabian Sea (film) (see Billimoria, Farishta)

the Partition 501

Pathfinder Pilot 181

Pavarotti, Luciano 341

Pearl Harbor 266

Pemba, Sherpa (character) 198-199, 446

Pen & sword 102, 361

The Perfumed Garden (see Gulistan, Paradise) (al- Nefzawi)

Peristan 55; mansion 217, 227, 230-231, 233, 486, 505-506

Peron, Juan 147, 150

Perowne (character) 230

Persepolis 14, 433

Persia, Persian 101, 103, 365, 505 (see Salman)

Persian Gulf 33

Peru 422

Peter Pan Never-Never 55; Tinkerbell 49 (Barrie)

Petra 103

Philishave 524

Phillips, Hyacinth (character) 164-167, 169-171, 254-255, 288, 328

Phillips, Orphia (character) 328-331

phoenix 84 (see rebirth)

Picabia 295, 297, 311

Pinkwalla (Sewsunker Ram) (character) 291-299, 401, 456-457, 516

PM 28, 518-519 (see Gandhi, I., Torture)

Podsnap 422-423, 425 (see Our Mutual Friend)

Poland, Polish 295, 297

Polaroid 500, 527

police 286, 401, 408, 443, 449-456, 474-475, 488-490, 503, 519, 537, 543, 546 (see manticore; Manticorps)

Poona 17, Pune 17

Popeye 66, 140-141, 157, 339; Bluto 67

Portobello Road 59

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 205 (Joyce)

postmodernism 261

Potemkin (see Battleship Potemkin)

Potter, Stephen 402

Powell, Enoch 186, 292

Prajapati 517

Presley, Elvis 51

the Prince of Darkness 290 (see Devil)

Pringle 442

Procrustes 405, 426

the Prospero Players 49, 74, 79 (see Shakespeare, The Tempest)

Pudding Lane 39

Punch 316

Mr. Punch 428

Pune (see Poona)

puranas 24

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (film) 42 (Launder)

Purgatory 158

Pygmalion 62 (Pygmalien) (see myths) (Shaw, G.B.)

Pythagoras (see Music of the Spheres)

Q*

Qaddafi, Muammar (see Qazhafi)

Qatar 34

Qazhafi 450 (see Qaddafi)

the Quakers (see Friends) 416

the qalmah 105-106, 190, 239, 335, 373-374, 392, 532

Quand, Mary 52

the quantum theory 523

the Queen 169, 175 (see Elizabeth, Victoria)

Questions: what manner of cause are we: 81; (1) When you're weak, what kind of an idea are you: 95, 102, 11, 121, 335, 423, 500; will you compromise 369; (2) How do you behave when you win: 369, 375, 467

the Qur'an (`The Recitation') 124, 245, 320, 353-354, 336, 364, 367, 392, 533; Q. Sharif 235; The Cow (Iblis 2:30/2:34) 336; The Heights (Satan 7:27) 323; The Israelites (17:61) 336; The Cave (Iblis 18:50) 353, 336; Ta Ha (Iblis 20:116) 336; Suad (Satan 38:78) 133; The Star (lote-tree 53:13/53:14) 91-92, 235, (53) 91, 114, 124

Qureishi, Mr. (character) 485-486, 496, 498

Qureishi, Mrs. (character) 228-229, 231-233, 238-239. 474-475, 478, 485-487, 489-491, 493, 502-504

Quzah 99

R*

Rabanne, Paco 305

race, racism 63, 261, 265, 267, 283, 287-289, 292, 299, 326, 398, 416, 437, 440-441

Radio Ceylon 40

rail roko 75

Railton Road 452

Rajdoot 403

Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shri (Osho) 17

Rama 539

Rama, D. W. 11, 12, 23-24

Ramachandra, M.G. 73

Ramayana 24, 539

`Ramlah' (character) 382, 460

Rao, N. T. Rama 28, 73

Ravana 539

Ray, Satyajit 440

Read, John Kingsley 450

Reading 180

Readymoney Terrace 342

reason 9, 189

rebirth 3, 10, 15, 17, 84, 133, 144, 214, 260; phoenix 84; reincarnation 5, 11, 17, 21, 31; resurrection 84, 401

Red Fort 64

Red Sea 423, 468

Redgrave, Vanessa 341 (see Trotsky)

Reeve, Christopher 341

`Rehana the Jew' (character) 382, 460

Rekha 350 (see Merchant)

Rembrant 297

Renata (character) 207

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 297

Restoration 340 (see Charles II)

Richalmus 321

Richard, Cliff 442

Ridley 63 (see Scott)

Rig-Veda 245

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 87 (albatross) (see Coleridge)

Al-Risalah (see The Message, Mohammad) (Akkad)

the Ritz 347

Roberts, Antoinette (character) 414-415, 449, 452

Roberts, Sylvester (character) 285 (see Simba)

Roberts, Walcott (character) 414-415, 449-450, 453, 465

Robinson Crusoe 439 (Defoe)

Roc 117, 461

The Rolling Stones (see "Sympathy for the Devil")

Rome, Roman 23, 186, 292 (see myths, Virgil)

Rorke's Drift 461

Rotary Club 76

RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevar Sangh) 475

Rubaiyat 397 (Khayyam)

"Rule, Britannia" 6, 407

Russell, Ken (see Altered States)

Russia, Russians 177, 224 (see Siberia)

S*

Safa 95

`Safia' (character) 382, 460

Safwan 387

Sagal, Eric Love Story 64

Saladin, Sultan 174

Saladin (see Chamcha)

salamander 117

Salim, Prince 334

Salman the Persian (character) 101, 104-107, 117-118, 363-370, 373-375, 385-388; the Farsi 210; and the trench 365

Sancho, Ignatius 292

Sanskrit 229

Santa Cruz Airport 39

Sarang 488-489, 492-494

the Sarpanch (see Din, M.)

Sartre, Jean-Paul 72

Satan 255, 257, 353-354 (see Devil)

the Satanic verses 24, 114, 124, 340, 366-368, 373, 445, 459, 484; Chamcha's s. 458-459, 544-545; translitteration 340

Saturn, saturnine 13, 294 (see Devil)

satyr 244

SAVAK 207-208 (see Pahlevi)

`Sawdah' (character) 379-382, 460

Scandal Point 13, 35, 37-38, 55, 64, 69, 520, 527, 535, 542, 546

Scandinavia, Scandinavian 266

scapegoat 429

Schwarzzenegger, Arnold 268

Scotland, Scottish 151, 160, 405, 431, 545

Scott, Ridley 63 (see Alien, Blade Runner)

Sea of Shadows 307

Seacole, Mary 292

"The Second Coming" 277 (Yeats)

secularism 29, 43, 478 (see belief/ unbelief)

Sellers, Charlie (character) 403, 425

Sellers, Peter 49, 51, 403, 425 (see The Goons)

Semjaza 321

Sen, Mrinal 440

Senegal 168

Septimus Severus 38, 292

The Seven Samurai (film) 439 (Kurosawa)

sex 25, 51, 102, 154, 172, 187, 227, 229, 247-248, 255, 270, 278-279, 296-297, 300, 302-303, 306-307, 312, 313, 343, 354, 361, 364, 386, 433, 435, 437-438, 535, 547; soft-porno VCR 227

Shaandaar Cafe, Hotel 184-187, 248-249, 251, 256, 263, 273, 275, 287-291, 293, 341, 405, 409, 440, 451, 454, 462-468, 515-516

Shah Bano (or Shahbano) 536

Shaitan 91, 93, 123, 210 245, 315, 321, 323-324, 327-332, 353-354, 367 (see Devil)

Shakespeare, William 109; Hamlet 228, 262; Julius Caesar 316; King Lear 133; Merchant of Venice 398 (Shylock); Midsummernight's Dream (see Strindberg Dream); Othello: 172, 248, 398, 428 (see Desdemona, Iago, Moor, Othello); Romeo and Juliet 60: balcony scene 371; The Tempest (see Miranda, Prospero Players)

Shangri-La 295, 501

Shark 95, 96, 103, 360, 372; the Scarlet Tents 92, 96; the Black Tents 96; the Silver Haired 92, 96; the Owners of Dappled Camels 96, 13

Shaw, George Bernard The Millionaires 49, 51, 71; (see Pygmalion, myths)

Shaw, Run Run (character) 342

She 388 (Haggard)

Sheba 103

Sheba, Queen of 103

Shelley, Mary (see Frankenstein)

Shepperton 421, 435

Sher Khan 176 (see Jungle Book)

Sheridan, Philip (see "The Only Good Indian")

The Shining (film) 252, 353 (Kubrick)

Shiraz 231

Shiv Sena 55, 537

Shiva lingam 517

Shree 420 (Charshawbees) (Mr.420) (film) 407, 440; "Mera joota hai japani" 3-4 (Kapoor)

Shufflebotham, Dora (character) 134

Shylock 398 (see Shakespeare Merchant)

Siberia gulag-infernos 332 (see Russia)

sickness 11, 15, 25; act of God 28; cancer 53, 232-234, 476, 478, 511, 521-531; The Bug, Phantom Bug, Ghostly Germ, Mystery Malaise, Nameless Ailment 11, 25; elephantiasis 275; epilepsy 112, 220-221, 229; leprosy 207; leukaemia 64; mental illness 189, 339; paranoid schizophrenia 338-341, 348, 351, 428-429, 433; pneumonia 164

Sikh 79, 283, 451, 453 (see Singh)

Silverstone 432

Simba, Uhuru (Sylvester Roberts) (character) 267, 285, 289, 408, 411-415, 449-451

simurgh 120

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 301, 408, 417 (see "The Last Demon")

Singer, Israel Joseph 301

Singh, Buta (character) 78-80, 86-87

Singh, Dara (character) 78-80, 86-87

Singh, Khalida (character) >Kerleeda >cheerleader 54

Singh, Man (character) 78-80, 86-87

Singh, Tavleen (character) 78-81, 86-87

Sirk, Douglas (see Imitation of Life)

Sisodia, S. S. (`Whiskey') (character) 272, 337-339, 341-347, 349-351, 421-422, 431, 436, 512-515, 517-520, 542, 545

Sita 539

Skinner, B.F. 397

Skorpios 179

sleep 15, 32, 294, 469; insomnia 129, 137, 146, 205, 208, 301, 434, 490 (see dream)

Slimbix 267

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 195, 281, 225, 325, 497 (Disney)

Socialist Workers Party 283

Society 16

Sodom 206

Soho 322

del Sol, Aurora (character) 147, 149, 153-155

Solan 514, 535

Solomon 103, 380 (see Sulaiman)

Sony Walkman 186

Sophia College Lane 535

South America 146

South Col 196

Southall (see Brickhall)

Southwark Bridge 430

Spider-woman 24 (see Ariadne, myths)

Spurs, Tottenham Hotspurs 161, 163

Sridevi 262, 341, 350, 513-4

Srinivas, Minoo (character) 473, 476

Srinivas, Mrs. (character) 473, 476

Srinivas, Sri (character) 224-225, 473-476, 489-491, 493, 502-505

St. Helena 205

St. John the Divine 245

St. Lucia 346

St. Pancras 459

St. Paul's Cathedral 39; Wren's dome 327

Stanford 349, 356, 442

A Star Is Born (film) 346 (Wellman)

Star Wars (film) 62

Stein (`Mack,' `Jockey,' `Popeye') 139-141, 159-163, 166-167

Der Steppenwolf 252 (Hesse)

Stevenson, Robert Luis (see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Stoicism 261

"The Story of Muhammad Din" 225 (see Din, M.) (Kipling)

Strand 439

Strindberg, August 441-443; Dream 442; Easter 442 (see Shakespeare Midsummernight's Dream)

Stroker, Bram (see Dracula)

Struwelpeter, Aileen (character) 274, 420

Sturges, John (see

The Great Escape, The Magnificient Seven)

Submission 91, 125-126, 289, 363, 366-367, 369, 373-375, 379, 381, 390 (see Islam)

Sufyan, Anahita (character) 185-186, 244, 251-253, 257-259, 261, 263-264, 273, 275, 278, 282-284, 287, 289, 291, 440, 456, 515

Sufyan, Hind (character) 243-253, 258-259, 264, 271, 273, 275, 284-285, 289-290, 440, 462, 465-466, 515

Sufyan, Mishal (character) 185-186, 244-245, 247, 250-253, 257-259, 263-264, 271, 273, 277-278, 280-287, 289-291, 293, 294, 400-402, 409, 412-413, 415-417, 435, 440, 451, 466, 468-469, 515-516, 527, 536

Sufyan, Muhammad (character) 184-186, 243-253, 259, 264, 276-277, 282, 285, 289-290, 404, 440, 463, 465-466

Sulaiman 363 (see Solomon)

Superman 178, 341 (see Reeve)

supernatural 21, 158, 501; supernal 274

Suraj (film) 217 "Titli Udi" (see Titlipur)

Sussex 158

swadeshi 229

Swatilekha (character) 536-7, 540-542

Sweden (place) 26

Swindon 180

Sylhet 159

"Sympathy for the Devil" 286 (Rolling Stones)

T*

Tagore, Rabinranathan 245; Ghare-Baire 228; Gitanjali 248

Taif 378, 392

Taj Mahal Hotel 29

Takesushi 274

Talleyrand, Charles 205

Tamburlaine the Great 325 (Marlowe)

Tantric 12

Tavleen (see Singh, Tavleen)

Telecom Tower 327

The Ten Commandments (film) 469 (see Heston) (DeMille)

Tennyson, Lord Alfred 136 (see Enoch Arden)

terrorism 74-87, 511-2

Teuton 268, 309

Texas 71; T. accent 75

Thackeray, William Vanity Fair 205

Thames 337

Thamoud 320

Thatcher, Margaret (see Torture); Thatcherism 284

theologicals 16, 28, 108, 272

theosophy 24 (see Besant)

Third World 252

Thomson, James 6

Thousand Nights and a Night (see Arabian Nights)

Threadneedle Street 39

"Three Little Words" 334 (see Check and Double Check)

Thums Up Cola 56, 486

Tiber 186

Timbuctoo 423

Tinkerbell 49 (see Peter Pan)

Tishevitz 408 (see Singer, I.B.)

"Titli Udi" (see Suraj, Titlipur)

Titlipur 217, 221-223, 225, 228, 231, 234, 237-238, 473-474, 477, 480, 482, 490, 494-495, 488-489, 501-504

Toff 316: Hawful Hadolf, Nastiparts (see Hitler, Nazis)

Topsy 294 (see Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Torture, Maggie (The Prime Minister) 266, 293, 517; Maggie the Bitch 269-270

Toscana 61

Tottenham 161 (see Spurs)

Tower Hamlets 447, 450

Tower of London, Bloodytower Queen 38

Trafalgar Square 37, 439

translation 8, 65, 205, 216, 249, 341, 513; untranslatable jokes 4; untranslated man 427

Trinidadian accent 287

Trojan Horse 56

Trotsky, Leon D., Trotskyist 49 (see Redgrave)

Truffaut, Francois 52 (see L'Argent du Poche)

Tuffnell Park 201

Turin Shroud 346

Turkey, Turks 183

Turner, Lana 298

Turpin, Dick 263

Tyburn Tree 41

Tynan, Kenneth 525

U*

Ubu Roi 297 (Jarry)

Uganda 140 (see Amin, I.)

Uhud 70

Ukraina, Ukrainian 398

Ulysses 5, 188, 450 (Joyce)

Umar (character) 389

`Umm Salamah the Makhzumite' (character) 382, 385, 460

Uncle Tom's Cabin 267 (brown Uncle Tom); Legree 292, 294; Topsy 294 (Beecher Stowe)

unified field theory 24, 81

Union Carbide 56 (see Bhopal)

Union Jack 266

the United Nations 60, 192

Urdu 232, 530

Usher, archbishop 305

al-Uzza 91, 99-100, 105, 107, 111, 114, 120, 126

V*

Vadodara 17

Vakil, Zeenat (character) Zeeny 51-73, 85, 192, 257, 288, 409, 435, 518-520, 532-538, 541-543, 547

Valance, Hal (Harold) (character) 264-270, 286, 308, 342, 349, 447, 517

Vallabh (character) 45, 65-69, 521

Vanessa 350 (see Redgrave)

Vanity Fair (see Thackeray)

Varma, Ravi 70

Vauxhall 453

vegetarianism 52-53, 91; v. & cannibalism 52

Venice, Venetian 231, 404, 425, 492

"Venus" 61 (Botticelli)

Vespucci, Americo 150

Victoria, Queen 292, 418; Widow of Windsor 297 (see Queen)

Victoria Park 450

Victoria Station 191, 200

Vietnam 177

the Vikings 144

Vinod 350 (see Khanna)

viper, vibora, de la Cruz 138

Virgil (see Aeneid, Eclogues, Rome)

the Virgin Queen 306 (Elizabeth I)

Vishnu 17

Vishwa Hindu Parishad 475

voice, voices, the Voice 9, 33, 43, 49, 53, 60-61, 73, 95, 112, 123, 158, 178-181, 185-187, 210-211, 234, 434, 443-446

Voice 173, 352

voodoo 289

`Vulture' (see Julia)

W*

walnut-tree 65, 69, 72, 511, 520, 535

Warden Road 28

Warsaw 297

water 26, 94, 104, 121, 126, 209-211, 214, 236

Waterloo 445

Waterloo Bridge 439

Watkins, Rochelle (character) 330-331

"We Shall Overcome" 415

Weaver, Sigourney 62-63 (see Alien)

Welles, Orson 266

Wellington 132

Wellman, William (see A Star Is Born)

Wells, Mary 266

Wembley 352, 398

Werwickshire 220

Weser River 484

Wesley, John 10

West Indies 292

West End 327, 421-422

West Side 274

West Side Story (see Sharks)

West, May 60

Westerman, Percy 229

Western Ghat 536

Weybridge 163

White Tower 266, 268

Whitechapel 297

Whitman, Walt (see "I Sing the Body Electric")

Whittington, `Turn-again' (character) 186

Wildernesse 326

William the Conqueror 44; Willie-the-Conk 129-30

William III 458

Willingdon Club 12

Wilson, Harold 177-178

Wilson, Marcia 178

Wilson, Maurice 24, 196-7, 199, 442

Windsor 297 (see Victoria)

Wing Chun 244, 282-283

The Wizard of Oz 55; green-tinted spectacles 22; ruby slippers 361; Scarecrow 317; yellowbrick lane 282 (see Brick Lane) (Baum; film by Victor Fleming)

Wolf (character) 316

Women/Men 20, 25, 26, 72, 118, 121, 517-8; an Amazonic Hijra54; bride suicide 517; the question of w. 366; wonder woman 54

Wonderland 6, 55, 122 (see Alice in Wonderland)

World's End (Land's End) 206

Wordsworth, William (see "Intimations of Immortality")

Woodward, Bob (see All the President's Men)

Wren's dome 327 (see St. Paul's)

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" 4 (Field)

X*

Xixabangma Feng 82, 303

Y*

Yates, Dornford 229

Yathrib 103, 125, 215, 363, 365-369, 381-382, 387

Yeats, William Butler (see "The Second Coming")

Yellamma 37

Yorkshire 269

Z*

Zafar 103

`Zainab bint Jahsh' (character) 382, 460

`Zainab bint Khuzaimah' (character) 382, 460

Al-Zamzam 78, 84, 91, 94-5, 104, 106, 112-113

Zephon 324

Zindabad 399

**Other**

"The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (Marx)

1984 459 (Airstrip One) (see London) (Orwell)

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