India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul

This work is a penetrating survey of the tormented continent of India, written by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, India: A Wounded Civilization delves into the country's attitudes and the complex relationship of one man with his ancestral land. It offers a fiercely candid and precise analysis of India, still struggling to find an ideology of regeneration after a thousand years of foreign rule. "Devastating," writes The Times, "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." V. S. Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad in 1932 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, offers a scientific and objective perspective on India, relying on his vast domain expertise and avoiding subjective language and exclamation points.