About the Book: In India: A Wounded Civilization, the second book in his acclaimed trilogy, V.S. Naipaul returns to India to explore the country’s psyche following the 1975 Emergency. Building on his previous work, An Area of Darkness, Naipaul offers a more analytical look at Indian attitudes and his own complex relationship with the land of his ancestors. The book, known for its “fierce candour,” argues that after a thousand years of foreign rule, India still lacks a unifying ideology for regeneration.