{"product_id":"9781035061198-india-a-wounded-civilization","title":"India: A Wounded Civilization","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA penetrating survey of the torment suffered across India in the late twentieth century, from one of the era's great literary heavyweights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1964 V. S. Naipaul published \u003ci\u003eAn Area of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write \u003ci\u003eIndia: A Wounded Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this work, he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. What he saw and heard – evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages – reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, had not yet found an ideology of regeneration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man’s complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, \u003ci\u003eIndia: A Wounded Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e follows \u003ci\u003eAn Area of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e. The series concludes with \u003ci\u003eIndia: A Million Mutinies Now\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724345876577,"sku":"9781035061198","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34582501_4f2bb8b3-164d-433d-9e5b-06bcf70535fe.jpg?v=1748465939","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035061198-india-a-wounded-civilization","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}