India: A Wounded Civilization (India Trilogy #2)

V.S. Naipaul

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3.71 · 14 ratings · 176 pages · Published: 11 Apr 1976
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
Returning to India -- the subject of his acclaimed An Area of Darkness -- in 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, V. S. Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers to feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India's manifold complexities.
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