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Supplemental Reading:

• John F. Burns, "Pakistan's Bitter Roots, and Modest Hopes" (highly recommended)
• L. S. Stavrianos, from "India Enters the Third World"
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, from "Minute on Indian Education" (recommended)
• Salman Rushdie, "On Gunter Grass" and "Damme, This Is the Oriental Scene For You!" (highly recommended)
• Amitava Kumar, "Rushdie's Children" (recommended)
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "The Author in Conversation" (interview with Mahasweta Devi) (highly recommended)
• Mahasweta Devi, "Draupadi" (html | pdf) (required)

• "Pakistan" (Encyclopedia Britannica World Atlas — HSU users only)
• Literature of the Indian Subcontinent in English (George Landow, Brown U)
• Salman Rushdie: An Overview (George Landow, Brown U)
• Salon magazine's interview with Rushdie
• Interview with W. L. Webb (in RealVideo, The Roland Collection)
• "Indian Partition" (Shirin Keen, Postcolonial Studies, Emory U)
• Jenny Sharpe, "The Limits of What Is Possible: Reimagining Sharam in Salman Rushdie's Shame" (Jouvert)
• "House of Graft: Tracing the Bhutto Millions," by John F. Burns.  (Shame, the sequel:  a report on corruption in/and the career of Benazir Bhutto from the New York Times)

Devi:

• "India" (Encyclopedia Britannica World Atlas — HSU users only)
• Biography & Bibliography (Shibani Baksi, Postcolonial Studies, Emory University)
• Rediff On The Net interviews Mahasweta Devi 

Other:

• Arundhati Roy: Reading and Conversation with Howard Zinn (September 18, 2002 - Lannan Foundation)