India

A Wounded Civilization

By: V. S. Naipaul

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Paperback | 8 April 2003

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176 Pages

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.

"Extraordinarily forceful.... Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer." -Newsweek

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's "Emergency," V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of India. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians--from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombay's homeless--Naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor.

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"Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer." -Newsweek "A deep pleasure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetrating, intelligent." -The Washington Post Book World

"Typical Naipaul-brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hardbitten yet resigned in the emotional background." -The New York Times Book Review

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