India: A Million Mutinies Now.

NAIPAUL, V.S.

Item Number: 146287

London: William Heinemann, 1990.

First edition of this “intricate, splendid, and utterly memorable book” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Megan Wilson. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.

Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society—the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces. This book represents Naipaul’s last word on his homeland, complementing his two other India travelogues, An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization.