India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul

India: A Wounded Civilization V. S. Naipaul ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
Page: 176
ISBN: 9781400030750

Apr 7, 2008 - It has been 33 years since the book was published and plenty has changed, but I still had to put down Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization after a while (thirty pages from the end) because it became too much to stomach. May 17, 2011 - India, A Wounded Civilization by V S Naipaul. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux. The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook. Apr 20, 2011 - I chose this as the definitive V.S. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron. The “wound” in the title is the one inflicted on India by Babar's invasion. Oct 21, 2010 - Then he gives the book a vaguely imperial title: An Area of Darkness, or India: A Wounded Civilization, or, his latest effort, The Masque of Africa. Nov 4, 2012 - …what strikes one from the very first book, A Wounded Civilization, is their rabid antipathy to the Indian Muslim. The author was on a second cross country visit. And India is condemned almost without qualification, surprisingly close to the approach taken by that arch consevative V.S. Aug 22, 2010 - The book is a 1970 work on underdeveloped India with its nauseating slums.