{"product_id":"india-3","title":"India","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe third book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndia: A Million Mutinies Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuch 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘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’ – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Best of used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44273593385217,"sku":"2SJB2L341-Used","price":199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/India_49cf2c53-3dda-4b14-9b51-a5154c96ebe0.jpg?v=1666004918","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/india-3","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}