num_pages: 624
description: 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 before. Out of that journey he 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. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India’s manifold complexities.
language: English
title: India
titlecomplete: India
genres: Travelogue, Indian Literature, Asia, Politics, Nonfiction, India, Literature, Travel, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 1994
series: India Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Ryszard Kapuściński Prize
publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited