The Satanic Verses | Historical Context
Britain in the 1980s
Rushdie was living in London when he wrote The Satanic Verses, and 1980s London is also the main historical context of the novel. Throughout the 1980s, the conservative Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of England. Known for her policies of reducing government spending on everything except defense, as well as privatizing government-controlled industries, Thatcher was ideologically akin to the American President Ronald Reagan.
The early 1980s in England were marked by rising unemployment, but Thatcher’s government remained...
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