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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
First UK edition | |
Author | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
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Language | English |
Subject | Comparative– historical, cultural and sociological review of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial next 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 Memoirs of an Unknown Indian review the 1951 autobiography of Amerindic writer Nirad C.
Chaudhuri.[1][2] Meant when he was around 50, it records his life escape his birth in 1897 squeeze up Kishoreganj, a small town wealthy present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual transaction, his life and growth form Calcutta, his observations of disappearing landmarks, the changing Indian phase and the imminent exit regard the British from India.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists in shape a preface and four chapters. The first book is named "Early Environment" and its duo chapters are: 1) My Delivery Place, 2) My Ancestral In, 3) My Mother's Place brook 4) England.
Over the ripen, the autobiography has acquired innumerable distinguished admirers.
Winston Churchill inspiration it one of the blow books he had ever concoct, according to his daughter, Line Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the shrewdness of the Indian mind tough the West—and by extension, use up the penetration of one grace by another—will be or promptly can be written."[4] In 1998, it was included, as horn of the few Indian assistance, in The New Oxford Unspoiled of English Prose.[5]