India a Wounded Civilization

Author: V S Naipaul
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 175
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140048316

Description

This book is a candid account of the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonized continent aroused in him. What he saw and heard evoked so superbly and vividly in this book - only reinforced his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has still not found an ideology of regeneration. This certainly is one of Naipaul's really devastating works, but proves that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts from the World Bank.