India: A Wounded Civilization
✍ Scribed by V.S. Naipaul
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✦ Table of Contents
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
PART ONE: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION
PART TWO: A NEW CLAIM ON THE LAND
PART THREE: NOT IDEAS, BUT OBSESSIONS
1. An Old Equilibrium
2. The Shattering World
3. The Skyscrapers and the Chawls
4. The House of Grain
5. A Defect of Vision
6. Synthesis and Mimicry
7. Paradise Lost
8. Renaissance or Continuity
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