India: A Million Mutinies Now
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India: A Million Mutinies Now is a nonfiction book
by V. S. Naipaul
published in 1990. It is a travelogue
written during the author's sojourn in his ancestral land — India
. It was the third of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes An Area of Darkness
and India: A Wounded Civilization
. True to his style, the narration is anecdotal, using examples and specificity in its descriptions.
Naipaul expresses serious misgivings about Indian attitudes and the Indian way of life. On the other hand Naipaul notes the economic growth and its associated emancipation of the various peoples of India. The title makes an analogy between the emancipation of millions and the Mutiny of 1857
. The book is somewhat optimistic about the country and its peoples.
Book
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by V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...
published in 1990. It is a travelogue
Travel literature
Travel literature is travel writing of literary value. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in focus, or...
written during the author's sojourn in his ancestral land — India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It was the third of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes An Area of Darkness
An Area of Darkness
An Area of Darkness is a book authored by V.S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now...
and India: A Wounded Civilization
India: A Wounded Civilization
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....
. True to his style, the narration is anecdotal, using examples and specificity in its descriptions.
Naipaul expresses serious misgivings about Indian attitudes and the Indian way of life. On the other hand Naipaul notes the economic growth and its associated emancipation of the various peoples of India. The title makes an analogy between the emancipation of millions and the Mutiny of 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...
. The book is somewhat optimistic about the country and its peoples.