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 In 1964, V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization. In this work, he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian