The Indian Trilogy

An Area Of Darkness 'brilliant ... Tender, Lyrical, Explosive' Observer V.s. Naipaul Was Twenty-nine When He First Visited India. This Is His Semi-autobiographical Account-at Once Painful And Hilarious, But Always Thoughtful And Considered-a Revelation Both Of The Country And Of Himself. India: A Wounded Civilization 'a Devastating Work, But Proof That A Novelist Of Naipaul's Stature Can Often Define Problems Quicker And More Effectively Than A Team Of Economists And Other Experts' The Times Prompted By The Emergency Of 1975, Naipaul Casts A More Analytical Eye, Convinced That India, Wounded By A Thousand Years Of Foreign Rule, Has Not Yet Found An Ideology Of Regeneration. India: A Million Mutinies Now 'indispensable For Anyone Who Wants Seriously To Come To Grips With The Experience Of India' New York Times Book Review It Is Twenty-six Years Since Naipaul's First Trip To India. Taking An Anti-clockwise Journey Around The Metropolises-including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta And Delhi-he Focuses On The Country's Development Since Independence. The Author Recedes, Allowing Indians To Tell The Stories, And A Dynamic Oral History Of The Country Emerges.