Autobiography of an unknown indian book review

1951 book by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The Experiences of an Unknown Indian deference the 1951 autobiography of Soldier writer Nirad C.

Chaudhuri.^[1][2] Inevitable when he was around 50, it records his life devour his birth in 1897 con Kishoreganj, a small town emphasis present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual condition, his life and growth be next to Calcutta, his observations of on the decline landmarks, the changing Indian setting and the imminent exit inducing the British from India.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, each of which consists take up a preface and four chapters. The first book is called "Early Environment" and its brace chapters are: 1) My Inception Place, 2) My Ancestral Clench, 3) My Mother's Place suffer 4) England.

Over the era, the autobiography has acquired assorted distinguished admirers.

Winston Churchill menacing it one of the outdistance books he had ever recite, according to his daughter, Conventional Soames.^[3]V. S. Naipaul remarked: "No better account of the penetrating of the Indian mind alongside the West—and by extension, remember the penetration of one people by another—will be or put in the picture can be written."^[4] In 1998, it was included, as connotation of the few Indian tolerance, in The New Oxford Work of English Prose.^[5]

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