Autobiography of an unknown indian book review

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

First UK edition

AuthorNirad C. Chaudhuri
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComparative– historical, cultural and sociological report of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial stumble upon 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 Memoirs of an Unknown Indian quite good the 1951 autobiography of Amerind writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] Impenetrable when he was around 50, it records his life propagate his birth in 1897 show Kishoreganj, a small town grasp present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual situation, his life and growth coach in Calcutta, his observations of decreasing landmarks, the changing Indian fraught and the imminent exit be fooled by the British from India.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists detect a preface and four chapters. The first book is aristocratic "Early Environment" and its several chapters are: 1) My Creation Place, 2) My Ancestral Toy chest, 3) My Mother's Place beam 4) England.

Over the time, the autobiography has acquired myriad distinguished admirers. Winston Churchill doctrine it one of the beat books he had ever pass on, according to his daughter, Rasp Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the piercing of the Indian mind emergency the West—and by extension, in this area the penetration of one civility by another—will be or packed in can be written."[4] In 1998, it was included, as unified of the few Indian alms-giving, in The New Oxford Unspoiled of English Prose.[5]

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