India: A Wounded Civilization
A Wounded Civilization
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 before. Out of that journey he 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 and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India’s manifold complexities.
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April 8, 2003
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood…
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul; Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul
Between Father and Son
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
Lost in the Valley of Death
Harley Rustad
Lands of Lost Borders
Kate Harris
Lion (Movie tie-in edition)
Saroo Brierley
Hot Thai Kitchen
Pailin Chongchitnant
And Home Was Kariakoo
M.G. Vassanji
Burma: Rivers of Flavor
Naomi Duguid
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
Jamie Zeppa
A Place Within
M.G. Vassanji
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux
Beyond the Great Wall
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Hitching Rides with Buddha
Will Ferguson
Sky Burial
Xinran
Wrong About Japan
Peter Carey
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei; Translated by Allan H. Barr
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
Madhur Anand
North Korea Journal
Michael Palin
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha
The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers
For the Glory
Duncan Hamilton
Children of Paradise
Laura Secor
And Home Was Kariakoo
M.G. Vassanji
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang
Lives of the Family
Denise Chong
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Beautiful and the Damned
Siddhartha Deb