India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhiâ€™s â€œEmergency,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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1400030757
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2003-04-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400030750

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1400030757
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2003-04-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400030750

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