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India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul

India: A Wounded Civilization , by V. S. Naipaul, is the second book of his "India" trilogy, after An Area of Darkness, and before India: A Million Mutinies Now. Naipaul came to write this book on his third visit to India, prompted by the Emergency of 1975.

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“While the Ottomans moved into South-East Europe, the Moghul invasion of India destroyed much of Hindu and Buddhist civilization there. The recent destruction by Moslems in Afghanistan of colossal Buddhist statues is a reminder of what happened to temples and shrines, on an enormous scale, when Islam took over.”

V.S. Naipaul book India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)

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“India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.”

V.S. Naipaul book India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization (1977)

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