National Consciousness in V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilization: A Postcolonial Perspective

Abstract

The research studied the pain and the losses as given in Naipaul’s Travelogue: India: A Wounded Civilization: A Postcolonial Perspective. The research began with the detailed study about the manifested losses and pains that aboriginal suffered. These situations challenged India’s growth and its progress overall. National consciousness is a term used to describe the sense of collective identity and belonging that a group of people share. In the context of India, national consciousness is closely tied to the country's postcolonial condition. Naipaul argues that India's national consciousness is deeply wounded by its colonial past and the legacy of British rule. He sees the country as caught in a cycle of cultural and political confusion, struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the demands of modernity. Naipaul assumed that India was still in darkness. Indians, in the era were living in high illiteracy, high-ignorance and under poverty. The pure, mounted, and real image of India is been depicted with the caste system and showing a real picture.