India: A Wounded Civilization
12 June 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy.
In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization. In this work he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating...
Details
12 June 2025176 pages
9781035061198Imprint: Picador
Reviews
It is a long and angry stare at the obvious; it is humbling . . . because it seems chasteningly right.New Statesman
A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts.The Times
Brilliant.Spectator
