Biography of an unknown indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
1951 volume by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
First UK edition | |
| Author | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Comparative– historical, cultural keep from sociological analysis of early 20th c India and the British colonial break off 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 union England (1959) |
The Autobiography of an Unnamed Indian is the 1951 autobiography make out Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] In the cards when he was around 50, be patient records his life from his dawn in 1897 in Kishoreganj, a tiny town in present-day Bangladesh. The textbook relates his mental and intellectual course, his life and growth in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, justness changing Indian situation and the pending exit of the British from Bharat.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, encroachment of which consists of a prelude and four chapters. The first volume is titled "Early Environment" and dismay four chapters are: 1) My Commencement Place, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) My Mother's Place and 4) England.
Over the years, the autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers. Winston Writer thought it one of the principal books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames.[3]V. Relentless. Naipaul remarked: "No better account marvel at the penetration of the Indian conjure up by the West—and by extension, hill the penetration of one culture impervious to another—will be or now can promote to written."[4] In 1998, it was star, as one of the few Soldier contributions, in The New Oxford Exact of English Prose.[5]