01802nam a2200265Ia 4500 OSt 20211029114849.0 210210b1993 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 8171670261 AL eng 915.404 23 NAII V S Naipaul 9290 India: A Million Mutinies Now Calcutta Rupa & Co 1990 vi,521 p. HB 23x15 cm. The third book in V.S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India. Much has changed since V. S. Naipaul’s first trip to India and this fascinating account of his return journey focuses on India’s development since independence. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises of India – including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Delhi – Naipaul offers a kaleidoscopic, layered travelogue, encompassing a wide collage of religions, castes, and classes at a time when the percolating ideas of freedom threatened to shake loose the old ways. The brilliance of the book lies in Naipaul’s decision to approach this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives: the author humbly recedes, allowing the Indians to tell the stories of their own lives, and a dynamic oral history of India emerges before our eyes. ‘With this book he may well have written his own enduring monument, in prose at once stirring and intensely personal, distinguished both by style and critical acumen’ Financial Times Travel Civilization 9291 India 9292 Travel 9293 NAIPAUL (V S) 9294 048157 ddc GF 97084 97084 0 0 0 0 Geography AL AL Geography 2021-02-17 0.00 0 915.404 NAII 048157 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-24 0 915.404 NAII GF00753 2021-10-29 00:00:00 2021-10-29 GF