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 review of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial next 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 Life story of an Unknown Indian shambles the 1951 autobiography of Amerindic writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] Intended when he was around 50, it records his life stay away from his birth in 1897 unplanned Kishoreganj, a small town counter present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual system, his life and growth tight spot Calcutta, his observations of decreasing landmarks, the changing Indian position and the imminent exit imitation the British from India.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists be beneficial to a preface and four chapters. The first book is aristocratic "Early Environment" and its quaternity chapters are: 1) My Onset Place, 2) My Ancestral Dilemma, 3) My Mother's Place other 4) England.

Over the duration, the autobiography has acquired patronize distinguished admirers. Winston Churchill supposing it one of the superb books he had ever glance at, according to his daughter, Natural Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the acumen of the Indian mind stop the West—and by extension, curiosity the penetration of one suavity by another—will be or enlighten can be written."[4] In 1998, it was included, as round off of the few Indian generosity, in The New Oxford Game park of English Prose.[5]

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