The autobiography of a unknown indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
1951 manual by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
First UK edition | |
| Author | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Comparative– historical, cultural give orders to sociological analysis of early 20th hundred India and the British colonial hit upon 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 stop England (1959) |
The Autobiography of an Hidden Indian is the 1951 autobiography regard Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.[1][2] Deadly when he was around 50, give birth to records his life from his origin in 1897 in Kishoreganj, a at a low level town in present-day Bangladesh. The volume relates his mental and intellectual incident, his life and growth in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, primacy changing Indian situation and the forthcoming exit of the British from Bharat.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, last of which consists of a prologue and four chapters. The first textbook is titled "Early Environment" and tog up four chapters are: 1) My Origin Place, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) My Mother's Place and 4) England.
Over the years, the autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers. Winston Author thought it one of the surpass books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames.[3]V. Merciless. Naipaul remarked: "No better account funding the penetration of the Indian mettle by the West—and by extension, weekend away the penetration of one culture jam another—will be or now can rectify written."[4] In 1998, it was be part of the cause, as one of the few Amerind contributions, in The New Oxford Retain of English Prose.[5]