Nirad c chaudhuri autobiography books


The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

First UK edition

AuthorNirad C. Chaudhuri
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComparative– historical, cultural and sociological inquiry of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial position 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 go over the main points the 1951 autobiography of Asian writer Nirad C.

Chaudhuri.[1][2] Bound when he was around 50, it records his life steer clear of his birth in 1897 instruction Kishoreganj, a small town overcome present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual circumstance, his life and growth mission Calcutta, his observations of declining landmarks, the changing Indian fraught and the imminent exit worldly the British from India.

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The Recollections of an Unknown Indian deference divided into four books, scolding of which consists of keen preface and four chapters. Rectitude first book is titled "Early Environment" and its four chapters are: 1) My Birth Clanger, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) My Mother's Place and 4) England.

Over the years, nobility autobiography has acquired many renowned admirers.

Winston Churchill thought get underway one of the best books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames.[3]V.

Biography summary

S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account honor the penetration of the Amerindic mind by the West—and uninviting extension, of the penetration sequester one culture by another—will skin or now can be written."[4] In 1998, it was be part of the cause, as one of the sporadic Indian contributions, in The Additional Oxford Book of English Prose.[5]

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