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    601 : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul: A Complex Relationship with India

    Ronojoy Sen

    31 August 2018

    Nobel laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul died on 11 August 2018. This paper analyses Naipaul’s views on India and his complicated relationship with the land of his ancestors by examining three of his non-fiction books – An Area of Darkness (1962), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).