India: A Wounded CivilizationReturning to India--the subject of his acclaimed "An Area of Darkness"--in 1975, Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. |
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An Old Equilibrium | 3 |
The Shattering World | 31 |
A NEW CLAIM ON THE LAND | 53 |
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