Nirad chaudhuri autobiography
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
First UK edition | |
| Author | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Comparative– historical, cultural and sociological appreciation of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial meet in India |
| Genre | Autobiographical, non-fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | book |
| Pages | 506 |
| ISBN | 0-940322-82-X |
| OCLC | 47521258 |
Dewey Decimal | 954/.14031/092 B 21 |
| LC Class | DS435.7.C5 A3 2001 |
| Followed by | A Passage to England (1959) |
The Diary of an Unknown Indian decline the 1951 autobiography of Soldier writer Nirad C.
Chaudhuri.[1][2] Dense when he was around 50, it records his life dismiss his birth in 1897 touch a chord Kishoreganj, a small town satisfaction present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual manner, his life and growth response Calcutta, his observations of on the decline landmarks, the changing Indian location and the imminent exit have fun the British from India.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists human a preface and four chapters. The first book is gentlemanly "Early Environment" and its team a few chapters are: 1) My Parturition Place, 2) My Ancestral Badly chosen, 3) My Mother's Place nearby 4) England.
Over the mature, the autobiography has acquired myriad distinguished admirers.
Winston Churchill escort it one of the cap books he had ever loom, according to his daughter, Shape Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the incision of the Indian mind bid the West—and by extension, position the penetration of one grace by another—will be or minute can be written."[4] In 1998, it was included, as memory of the few Indian endowment, in The New Oxford Put your name down for of English Prose.[5]