Religion in The Non-fictions of V. S. Naipaul

Abstract

Our lovely country India is a country of various people, religions, castes, and colours. It is the microcosm of the whole world in the field of religion. Here people of different sects and beliefs live together. So, in order to write anything about the Hindu religion or the other religions, one should be fully versed with the various aspects of religion. V. S. Naipaul was very much interested to visit his parental homeland, that is India. Consequently, he paid three visits to India and whatever he saw and felt in his visit, he wrote some classical works in the form of travelogues. In his famous book An Area of Darkness which is in the form of a travelogue, Naipaul describes the plights of the eastern world including India and Africa. While living in London he was in the habit of seeing the beautiful London but when he paid his first visit to India, he finds the Indian scenario unbearable. In the very opening of the book, we find his bitter experiences at Bombay Dock in the office of Customs. The mismanagement of the officials of the customs perturbed his concept of India.