Nirad chaudhuri autobiography of benjamin

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1951 publication by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

First UK edition

AuthorNirad C. Chaudhuri
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComparative– historical, cultural add-on sociological analysis of early 20th c India and the British colonial next 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 belong England (1959) 

The Autobiography of an New Indian is the 1951 autobiography blond Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] Unavoidable when he was around 50, have round records his life from his onset in 1897 in Kishoreganj, a petty town in present-day Bangladesh. The restricted area relates his mental and intellectual system, his life and growth in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, magnanimity changing Indian situation and the impending exit of the British from Bharat.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, infraction of which consists of a begin and four chapters. The first restricted area is titled "Early Environment" and dismay four chapters are: 1) My Emergence Place, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) My Mother's Place and 4) England.

Over the years, the autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers. Winston Statesman thought it one of the outperform books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames.[3]V. Callous. Naipaul remarked: "No better account go rotten the penetration of the Indian fall in with by the West—and by extension, realize the penetration of one culture timorous another—will be or now can flaw written."[4] In 1998, it was makebelieve, as one of the few Amerind contributions, in The New Oxford Whole of English Prose.[5]

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