A Post-Colonial Study In Examining Naipaul’s India And Current India Based On Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilization

Abstract

This article, “A Post-Colonial Study in Examining Naipaul’s India and Current India Based on
Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilization” brings out the major differences between Naipaul’s India and
that of existing India. V.S. Naipaul believes that his work India: A Wounded Civilization would rescue the
Indian nation from being corrupted. He is one of the prominent writers in India, who discusses about the
condition of India and how India is going to participate in the race with that of the developed countries.
According to him, India is still an under developed country, while compared with other nations because
the leaders in this country are fully corrupted. This article mainly concentrates to exemplify the
difficulties that the Indians face because of corruption. He is a writer who tells about the country and the
culture of the people as he lived between two cultures of England and India. As he had greater
expectation on India, he has brought in several suggestions to help India to transform itself as a
developed country. He felt that India is developed through the readings of Indian authors. But when he
came to India he found it to be fake, and that the writings about India was not true. As his ancestors were
from India he knew about the Indian culture and their various practices such as animal worship,
rationalism, ideas beyond logical thinking, superstitious beliefs and dead customs. The Indian writers had
to abide by the Government so wrote the positive side of India. Thus Naipaul compares his views about
India and other countries with the knowledge he had about the eastern and western culture. This paper
presents the post-colonial perspective of Naipaul’s India and Present India.