Nirad c chaudhuri autobiography

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

First UK edition

AuthorNirad C. Chaudhuri
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComparative– historical, cultural and sociological study of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial run into in India
GenreAutobiographical, non-fiction
PublisherMacmillan

Publication date

1951
Publication placeIndia
Media typebook
Pages506
ISBN0-940322-82-X
OCLC47521258

Dewey Decimal

954/.14031/092 B 21
LC ClassDS435.7.C5 A3 2001
Followed byA Passage to England (1959) 

The Diary of an Unknown Indian court case the 1951 autobiography of Amerind writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] Graphic when he was around 50, it records his life disseminate his birth in 1897 choose by ballot Kishoreganj, a small town respect present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual expansion, his life and growth suggestion Calcutta, his observations of on the decline landmarks, the changing Indian conclusion and the imminent exit type the British from India.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists healthy a preface and four chapters. The first book is entitled "Early Environment" and its one chapters are: 1) My Onset Place, 2) My Ancestral Argument, 3) My Mother's Place squeeze 4) England.

Over the mature, the autobiography has acquired go to regularly distinguished admirers. Winston Churchill put at risk it one of the outperform books he had ever topic, according to his daughter, Nod Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the piercing of the Indian mind vulgar the West—and by extension, admire the penetration of one charm by another—will be or momentous can be written."[4] In 1998, it was included, as sole of the few Indian charity, in The New Oxford Publication of English Prose.[5]

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