| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Calcutta | The capital of Bengal |
| Bengal | A state in north-east India |
| Bangladesh | A nation state, previously East Pakistan |
| diaspora | an ethnic community spread internationally |
| basmati | a kind of rice from India and Pakistan |
| Shukumar and Shoba | are married but their relationship is under a lot of stress |
| Mr Pirzada | has five daughters whose names all begin with "A" |
| Mr Kapasi | is flattered to find that Mrs Das is intrigued by his job |
| Boori Ma | cleaned the stairwell and protected the flats from intruders |
| Dev | visited Miranda on Sundays, but told his wife he was out running |
| Mrs Sen | refused to let Eliot walk around while she was chopping vegetables |
| Sanjeev | didn't want to have a statue of the Virgin Mary on his lawn |
| Bibi Haldar | wanted so much to be married and have her own home and family |
| Mrs Croft | was a very old lady who only rented out rooms to Harvard or Tech boys |
| A Temporary Matter | takes place in a snowy March in Boston |
| When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine | is seen through the eyes of the young protagonist Lilia |
| In Interpreter of Maladies | most of the action takes place in a hired car on a tour of the Sun Temple at Konarak |
| A Real Durwan | centres on the life of an old woman who is a caretaker of a block of flats in Calcutta |
| In Sexy | an affair between a young woman and a married man ends when Miranda listens to a child's advice |
| Mrs Sen's story | is a tender tale of an Indian professor's wife as she struggles to adapt to life in an North American university town |
| In This Blessed House | a young husband is dismayed by his new wife's response to finding a succession of Christian icons in their new house |
| The Treatment of Bibi Haldar | tells the story of an unfortunate woman who yearns for marriage and children |
| The narrator in The Third and Final Continent | was born in India, lived as a student in London and went to work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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