Who is the author of 'India: A Million Mutinies Now'?

• Naipaul. "India: A Million Mutinies Now" is a non-fiction book by Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, published in 1990. It is the third book of his "India trilogy".

About the book:

Naipaul travelled across India in the late 1980s and recorded long conversations with a wide variety of people: politicians, activists, businessmen, Shiv Sena workers, Dalits, Sikh militants, journalists and ordinary families.

Through their stories, he showed how many groups in India were asserting their identities and demanding change. He saw these "million mutinies" as a sign of growing self-awareness and energy in Indian society.

It is generally considered more sympathetic towards India than his earlier books.

Naipaul's India trilogy:

• "An Area of Darkness" (1964): a critical account of his first visit to India, the land of his ancestors.
• "India: A Wounded Civilization" (1977): written during the Emergency.
• "India: A Million Mutinies Now" (1990).

About V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018):

• He was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, into a family of Indian origin (his grandfather had migrated from eastern Uttar Pradesh as an indentured labourer).
• He studied at Oxford University and lived most of his life in England.
• His famous novels include "A House for Mr Biswas" (1961), "The Mimic Men", "In a Free State" (which won the Booker Prize in 1971) and "A Bend in the River" (1979).
• He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Other writers on modern India:

• Salman Rushdie: "Midnight's Children", a novel about India after independence.
• Mark Tully: BBC journalist; "No Full Stops in India" and "India in Slow Motion".
• Pankaj Mishra: "Butter Chicken in Ludhiana" and "Age of Anger".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Salman Rushdie wrote "Midnight's Children".
• ✗Mark Tully wrote "No Full Stops in India".
• ✗Pankaj Mishra wrote "Butter Chicken in Ludhiana".