Abstract: It is always language in which one reads one’s culture and its institutional representations. History, hegemony, culture, memory of any place finds their due manifestation through language. And, here, if we look at the linguistic space of India, we find that since the colonial era, it was equally threatened and challenged, however it remained strong and all-absorbing and hence like phoenix it rose from its ashes attaining new heights by donning on the new colours of the colonial encounter. Indeed, the study of the evolution of English in India undoubtedly thus presents a story of an inevitable conflict between power and resistance; and adoption and subversion. The growth of Indian Writings in English has always been entangled with “the politics of the Empire” where the promulgation of the study of British language and literature in India was a part of a well thought colonial enterprise to demean Indian ways of reading and interpreting their own vernacular tongues. However, writers across generations subverted the attempt and also the language to write “back to the empire”. Thus, the idea of ‘Indianness’ in Indian English through literature becomes all the more dynamic as a phenomenon. And, it is in this context that the present paper will discuss Salman Rushdie’s vision of Indian Writings in English as presented in his novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990). He uses an English that is decolonising itself and effectively articulates the complexity of the land and its people. 

Keywords:Indian English, Imperial English, Hybridity, Multiculturalism, Discourse.