India (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Travel and current affairs
- Time of Work: 1962-1989
- Setting: India
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Current affairs
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Politics, Twentieth century, Social issues, Religion, 1980’s, Economics, Muslims, India or East Indian people, Hindus or Hinduism
- Locales: India
Since the publication of A Passage to India in 1924, British writing about India has in many cases replicated the basic structures and themes of F. M. Forster’s novel. One thinks of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet, in particular the first volume, The Jewel in the Crown (1966), where the plot turns on the rape of an Englishwoman by rioting natives; or of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust (1975), in which miscegenation and an Englishwoman’s rebellious curiosity motivate the novel’s major events. The hold of what Edward Said has called “orientalism” over the...
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