India A Wounded Civilization

by Naipaul, V. S

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New York U. S. A.: Vintage. Very Good 1977. Softcover. Marfree, early prtg; tanned pps no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; Departures Ser. ; 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches; 191 pages; \nReview -Typical Naipaul -- brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hard-bitten yet resigned in the emotional background. ? -- The New York Times Book Review Product Description 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 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 Indians-from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombay's homeless-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. .