{"product_id":"india-a-wounded-civilization-9781400030750","title":"India: A Wounded Civilization","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Extraordinarily forceful.... Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer.\" -\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of India. 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, \u003ci\u003eIndia: A Wounded Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of astonishing insight and candor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400030750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2003 pg. 123\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917119918261,"sku":"9781400030750","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b6a690dd-1f69-4405-b544-b093ee80f308.jpg?v=1687278035","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/india-a-wounded-civilization-9781400030750","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}