Chutnification

Chutnification is the adoption of Indian elements into the English language or culture. The word “chutnification” was coined by Salman Rushdie in his novel, Midnight’s Children.[1][2] Chutney is a sauce or a dry base for a sauce, originating from the Indian subcontinent.

Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is not the first novel to exhibit or employ chutnification. More-or-less, all the post-colonial writers tried this in some way or other.

For example, Chinua Achebe’s seminal trilogy Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God as well as Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood were written long before Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

But those novels were more busy at ‘creating’ history without proper documentations to challenge the historylessness the Igbo people or Swahili Community was ‘suffering from’ therefore remain in the ‘fictions only’ category.

References
  1. Krishnamurthy, Sarala (3 September 2018). "The chutnification of English: An examination of the lexis of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. Crane, Ralph J. (1992). "The Chutnification of History". Inventing India. pp. 170–189. doi:10.1057/9780230380080_8. ISBN 978-1-349-39062-5. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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