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     • Amid dazzling battles, court intrigue and sultry romances, Victory City is Rushdie's history of Vijayanagar, a medieval Hindu Empire that fell to Muslim armies. Today the site has become a symbol of Hindu, Muslim enmity and a part of a revisionist rewriting of India's past by the country's ruling Hindu nationalist government.
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   • “Victory City” presents itself as a manuscript found in a long-buried clay pot, an “immense narrative poem” in Sanskrit by Pampa Kampana herself: the secret history of an empire, as condensed by a nameless present-day scribe, “who is neither a scholar nor a poet but merely a spinner of yarns.” (Merely.)

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   Why is victory city important?

   • Amid dazzling battles, court intrigue and sultry romances, Victory City is Rushdie's history of Vijayanagar, a medieval Hindu Empire that fell to Muslim armies. Today the site has become a symbol of Hindu, Muslim enmity and a part of a revisionist rewriting of India's past by the country's ruling Hindu nationalist government.

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   Why is victory city a good book?

   • In this way, Victory City sharpens the reader’s understanding of the writing of history and how it can be used to serve certain agendas. Victory City is Salman Rushdie’s fifteenth novel and the first to be published since he was brutally attacked in August 2022, which left him with life-changing injuries.

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   Is victory city an injustice?

   • To think about Victory City purely in terms of this incident, however, does Rushdie’s marvellous epic novel an injustice. Rushdie is an assured storyteller at the height of his powers, revealing once again how important India is as a fount of his imagination.

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   What is 'victory City' based on?

   • “Victory City'' follows the story of the birth, glory, and fall of the fictional South Indian empire of Bisnaga. The novel is framed as the common translation of a newly “found text” from the great blind-prophetess-queen, Pampa Kampana, which is discovered half a millennium after her and the empire’s simultaneous deaths.

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   How does victory city start?

   • Victory City begins with a damning picture of the life—and death—of women under the old power structure. Pampa’s mother drops her child’s hand to walk into a funeral pyre, joining a mass suicide of women, mostly wives whose husbands were recently slaughtered in a senseless battle.

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   Jan 31, 2023 · Salman Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, purports to be the summary of a long-lost, 24,000-verse epic poem from 14th-century India. The hero and author of the poem is Pampa Kampana, who as a...

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   Feb 7, 2023 · Amid dazzling battles, court intrigue and sultry romances, Victory City is Rushdie's history of Vijayanagar, a medieval Hindu Empire that fell to Muslim armies.

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   Feb 1, 2023 · VICTORY CITY, by Salman Rushdie. Pampa Kampana’s tale begins when her mother walks into the flames. “The story goes” that with all their husbands dead in battle, the women of a small and ...

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   Feb 15, 2023 · Victory City is Salman Rushdie’s fifteenth novel and the first to be published since he was brutally attacked in August 2022, which left him with life-changing injuries.

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   Feb 21, 2023 · “Victory City” is not only a testament to the author’s resilience in the face of life threatening criticism, but a perfectly executed epic of historical fiction and magical realism. “Victory...

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   Feb 2, 2023 · In Victory City, India is beset by communal violence and migrations between Vijayanagar and its Muslim neighbour Zafarabad, echoing real-world developments, while Pampa’s old adversary ...

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   Feb 6, 2023 · “Victory City,” which is presented as a recovered medieval Sanskrit epic, is the story of a young girl named Pampa Kampana, who, after witnessing the death of her mother, acquires divine ...