Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

==Early life and education==
Rushdie was born in [[Bombay]] on 19 June 1947<ref name="BritshC">{{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/salman-rushdie|title=Salman Rushdie – Literature|website=literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=24 December 2018|archive-date=29 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829213354/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/salman-rushdie|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[British India]], into a [[Kashmiri Muslim]] family.<ref name="Kashmiri">[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3889 ''Literary Encyclopedia'': "Salman Rushdie"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012011816/https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3889 |date=12 October 2019 }}. Retrieved 20 January 2008</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rushdie.htm |title=Salman Rushdie |website=Books and Writers |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113033937/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rushdie.htm |archive-date=13 January 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]-educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Rushdie's father was dismissed from the [[Indian Civil Services]] (ICS) after it emerged that the birth certificate submitted by him had changes to make him appear younger than he was.<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed after 76 yrs: Rushdie's dad's secret humiliation in London |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story//articleshow/16179053.cms |website=mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com |access-date=13 September 2018 |date=15 December 2014 |archive-date=19 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140432/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story//articleshow/16179053.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> Rushdie has three sisters.<ref name="EmoryUniv">{{YouTube|id=kmb1oQcRmkM&t=10m42s|title=Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Digital Scholarship with Erika Farr}}</ref> He wrote in his memoir, ''[[Joseph Anton]],'' that his father adopted the name Rushdie in honour of [[Averroes]] (Ibn Rushd). He recalls his "first literary influence": "When I first saw ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' it made a writer of me."<ref>{{cite news| author=[[Robert Coover]]| title=There's No Place Like Oz| date=January 15, 1995| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-eastwest.html?scp=1&sq=east%2520west%2520stories%2520%2520rushdie&st=cse}}</ref> He recalls "Every child in India in my day (and probably still) was obsessed with [[P. G. Wodehouse]] and [[Agatha Christie]]. I read mountains of books by both."<ref name=":ByTheBook">{{cite news| title=Salman Rushdie: By the Book | date=September 17, 2015| work=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/salman-rushdie-by-the-book.html}}</ref> He recalls that "Alice captured my imagination as few other books did: both the books, not just ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' but ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' as well, and I can still recite the whole of "[[Jabberwocky]]" and "[[The Walrus and the Carpenter]]" from memory. I also loved the ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' series by [[Arthur Ransome]] because of the unimaginable freedom those young people sailing in the Lake District were given by their families ... When I was 16, I read ''[[The Lord Of The Rings]]'' and became obsessed, and can still recite the inscription on the Ruling Ring ('One ring to rule them all...') in the dark language of Mordor. I read an astonishing amount of Golden Age science fiction, not just [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]] and [[Kurt Vonnegut]] but more arcane writers like [[Clifford D. Simak]], [[James Blish]], [[Zenna Henderson]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]]."<ref>{{cite news| title=What's on Salman Rushdie's reading list?| last=Siganporia| first=Shahnaz| date=September 4, 2015| work=Vogue India| url=https://www.vogue.in/content/whats-on-salman-rushdies-reading-list}}</ref> He has written about his family following the Indian custom of kissing holy books if they were dropped on the floor. "But we kissed everything. We kissed dictionaries and atlases. We kissed [[Enid Blyton]] novels and ''[[Superman]]'' comics. If I'd ever dropped the telephone directory I'd probably have kissed that, too."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Always the Outsider |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-imaginary.html |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1990-04-26 |title=Is Nothing Sacred? |url=https://granta.com/is-nothing-sacred/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Granta |language=en-US}}</ref>

Rushdie grew up in Bombay and was educated at the [[Cathedral and John Connon School]] in [[Fort (Mumbai precinct)|Fort]] in [[South Bombay]], before [[Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India#United Kingdom|moving]] to [[England]] in 1964 to attend [[Rugby School]] in [[Rugby, Warwickshire]]. He then attended the [[University of Cambridge]] as an undergraduate student at [[King's College, Cambridge]], from where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[History]].<ref name="BritshC" />