India: A Wounded Civilization

''A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul''s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts'' The Times In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness , his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization . In this work, he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. What he saw and heard - evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages - reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, had not yet found an ideology of regeneration. A work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man''s complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors. The second book in V. S. Naipaul''s acclaimed Indian trilogy, India: A Wounded Civilization follows An Area of Darkness . The series concludes with India: A Million Mutinies Now . Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 12.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781035061198
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3506119-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, India, Social and cultural history, Asian History, c 1970 to c 1979, Autobiography: writers, HISTORY / Asia / South / General