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Abstract
This article looks at Naipaul's attempts at reconciling himself with Hinduism through an engagement with caste as the structuring principle of Indian Hindu society. The article dis-locates Naipaul as a western traveller, pulled back to his East Indian roots in Trinidad to read his confrontation of Indian realities in his travels to India in An Area of Darkness (1964), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990). By contextualizing V S Naipaul within his Hindu Trinidadian upbringing, the article surmises that Naipaul's negotiation of caste in India helps him come to an understanding of his inheritance of caste and Hindu worldview in Trinidad.