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India: A Wounded Civilization Book

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhiâ??s â??Emergency,â? V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indiansâ??from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombayâ??s homelessâ??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.Read More

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  • 1400030757
  • 9781400030750
  • V. S. Naipaul
  • 1 April 2003
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • Reprint
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