India : a wounded civilization
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 191 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"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"--Page 4 of cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Naipaul, V. S. 1. (2003). India: a wounded civilization (Vintage books edition.). Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-. 2003. India: A Wounded Civilization. Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-. India: A Wounded Civilization Vintage Books, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-. India: A Wounded Civilization Vintage books edition., Vintage Books, 2003.
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