Saleem Sinai Methwold's Estate, Warden Road
Book One
The hilltop cluster of villas where the narrator's family buys a home just as the British leave, and where he is raised among the departing empire's leftover cocktail hours and pianolas. It stands in for the Warden Road enclave of Rushdie's own childhood, high above the city on the Malabar Hill slope.
Book One, Methwold
inspired by Methwold's Estate is invented, four villas named for European palaces that a departing Englishman sells off at the stroke of Independence. Rushdie grew up at Windsor Villa on Warden Road, now Bhulabhai Desai Road, and that gated enclave on the Malabar Hill rise is the estate's model. Sited on Warden Road near Kemps Corner as a representative point.
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Saleem Sinai Dal Lake, Srinagar
Book One
The saga opens a generation before the narrator, in the Kashmir valley, where his grandfather the doctor first examines his future wife through a hole in a sheet. It is the family's point of origin, deliberately far from the Bombay where the rest of the story unfolds, which is why it sits outside this map's frame.
Book One, The Perforated Sheet
explicit Kashmir and Srinagar are named as the setting of the family's opening chapter; sited at Dal Lake. This lies far north of the Bombay frame, so it is flagged as outside the setting.
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