3.5
India A Million Mutinies Now
"V.S. Nailpaul, though born in Trinidad, recognized at a young age that it was his ancestral Indian culture more than his immediate environs that governed who he was and how he thought. This book grows out of Naipaul's lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alein. In India he relates the stories of many of the people he met when he first visited more than thirty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumberable frictions present in Indian society--the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces ..."--Page 4 of cover
HistoryTravelAsiaIndia & South AsiaEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH521
LANGUAGEEN
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, won an Open National Scholarship from Queen's Royal College and went on to become a world famous novelist, winning the Nobel Laureate for Literature in the year 2001. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from University College, Oxford in 1953, and four years later published his first book The Mystic Masseur, made into film by Ismail Merchant in 2001. In 1961 he published A House for Mr. Biswas, a novel autobiographical in its nature. Some of his other works include The Guerillas(1975),The Middle Passage(1962) A Bend in the River(1979), Among the Believers(1981), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), India: A Million Mutinies Now(1990),Beyond Belief(1998) and Half a Life(2001). In 1990 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 1992 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross for services to the nation.
3.5
India A Million Mutinies Now
by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
"V.S. Nailpaul, though born in Trinidad, recognized at a young age that it was his ancestral Indian culture more than his immediate environs that governed who he was and how he thought. This book grows out of Naipaul's lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alein. In India he relates the stories of many of the people he met when he first visited more than thirty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumberable frictions present in Indian society--the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces ..."--Page 4 of cover
HistoryTravelAsiaIndia & South AsiaEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH521
LANGUAGEEN
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, won an Open National Scholarship from Queen's Royal College and went on to become a world famous novelist, winning the Nobel Laureate for Literature in the year 2001. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from University College, Oxford in 1953, and four years later published his first book The Mystic Masseur, made into film by Ismail Merchant in 2001. In 1961 he published A House for Mr. Biswas, a novel autobiographical in its nature. Some of his other works include The Guerillas(1975),The Middle Passage(1962) A Bend in the River(1979), Among the Believers(1981), The Enigma of Arrival (1987), India: A Million Mutinies Now(1990),Beyond Belief(1998) and Half a Life(2001). In 1990 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 1992 Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross for services to the nation.
