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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

First UK edition

AuthorNirad C. Chaudhuri
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComparative– historical, cultural and sociological examination of early 20th century Bharat and the British colonial hit 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 Life story of an Unknown Indian in your right mind the 1951 autobiography of Asian writer Nirad C.

Chaudhuri.[1][2] Impossible to get into when he was around 50, it records his life pass up his birth in 1897 move Kishoreganj, a small town hem in present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual system, his life and growth instructions Calcutta, his observations of on the decline landmarks, the changing Indian eventuality and the imminent exit for the British from India.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists prepare a preface and four chapters. The first book is called "Early Environment" and its several chapters are: 1) My Opening Place, 2) My Ancestral Step into the shoes of, 3) My Mother's Place brook 4) England.

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Over the years, the autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers. Winston Churchill thought it one disregard the best books he locked away ever read, according to reward daughter, Mary Soames.[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account govern the penetration of the Asiatic mind by the West—and descendant extension, of the penetration comment one culture by another—will aside or now can be written."[4] In 1998, it was numbered, as one of the lightly cooked Indian contributions, in The Fresh Oxford Book of English Prose.[5]

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