India: A Million Mutinies

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1998
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V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.

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V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Edition: New
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 0749399201
ISBN 13: 9780749399207
Book Overview: The most notable commitment of intelligence that post-colonial India has evoked... He is indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India - New York Times Book Review

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Typical Naipaul -- brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hard-bitten yet resigned in the emotional background. -- The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. Since he started writing in 1954 he has won many prizes including the Booker Prize for the novel In a Free State (1971).He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Magic Seeds and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.