• ISBN13: 9788126930104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: May 20, 2019
• Pages: 168
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 320 grams

This book breaks fresh ground in exploring V.S. Naipaul’s Indian Trilogy. Craving to know more and more about India—the land of his ancestors—Naipaul, like a student, takes up three travels to India in three consecutive decades. Naipaul has never been very comfortable with the received understanding of India because he has understood since his childhood that there operates a huge sense of contradiction between the India of his imagination and the real India as a country. During the span of three decades, Naipaul takes up a search for the correct perspective against which he will be able to understand India. During these decades, Naipaul matures and mellows down as he gets closer to the noblest and the most ignoble elements operating within the spirit of India. This strange dichotomy on the one hand projects a country of outstanding greatness, and on the other, reveals the dark destructive sense of evil, an area of darkness, which tries to undo this greatness inflicting innumerable wounds. Yet, India (Naipaul seems to locate a narrative of resilience) to regain its great heights, takes recourse to million mutinies. In 2019, with new governance around, with abrupt economic reforms trying to give India an international gloss, one cannot be too complacent about the restlessness in a large area of the deprived people. Million mutinies seem brewing up, something which Naipaul in a very far-sighted manner has documented in his third book India: A Million Mutinies Now. The success and relevance of Naipaul is definitely for the fact that he has not played ostrich in the face of negative Indian experiences which has labeled him as a person disgustingly anti-Indian. This book has tried to underline the fact that nowhere is Naipaul off-the-rails, concocting absurd stories against India.

Dr. Niraj Kumar Singh is a Guest Faculty in the Department of English & Other Foreign Languages, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi, Vidyapith, Varanasi. As a creative writer, he tries his hand at poetry and also writes about issues related to society and politics. His academic interests include Travel Literature, the Literature of the Indian Diaspora, and Postcolonial Theory and Literature. He has participated and presented research papers in around twenty international and national seminars/conferences. He has published several articles in international and national magazines and books.