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	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an autobiographical work of one of the most controversial writers of India -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, the last imperialist.
		Nirad, a self-professed Anglophile, is in any situation an explosive proposition and in the book he is at his best in observing as well as observing-at-a-distance and this dual perspective makes it a wonderful reading.
		Arguably, his magnum opus considering his literary output that he could generate as late age as ninety years, Autobiography is not a single book, it is many.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Autobiography_of_an_Unknown_Indian (284 words)

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		It was an endeavour in which Nehru's principles of secular statecraft played a key role, partly premised upon the political bequest of Gandhian tolerance and cultural inclusion, but inspired more directly by a historic vision of modernity and science.
		An interesting counterpoint is achieved by Harish Trivedi, with "The Last Bengali Babu", a celebration equally of Chaudhuri's "pretentious swagger" as of his "delightful" use of "apt and simple English" and his resonant and classical Bengali.
		Khushwant Singh, in an essay first published in 1987, provides a recapitulation of his own personal encounters with Chaudhuri and draws attention to the rather unsavoury methods by which his extreme form of dissent with the dominant nationalist consensus was muzzled.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1424/14240730.htm (2059 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		What distinguishes this work is that it is not only the story of an “unknown” Indian but an “unknown Indian woman” — a woman who has lived in two centuries and has “seen her own family” and the country “make the transition from tradition to modernity”.
		The book is certainly an achievement for a high-spirited girl who had to give up her formal education to enter domesticity.
		As a mother of six girls, she had a wonderful life and a loving husband, but most of her life was spent inside the kitchen and working as an “unrecognized secretary” for her journalist husband.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031226/asp/opinion/story_2715041.asp (448 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Indian-born author Nirad Chaudhuri dies
		Chaudhuri made his entry into the scene of scholarly literature in 1951 with the publication of "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian," a memoir of his childhood in colonial India, in what is now Bangladesh.
		It was an indictment of what he called India's failed leadership and a lament for the decline of the country.
		The son of a country lawyer and illiterate mother, Chaudhuri was born in Nov. 23, 1897, in Kishorganj, a riverside town where the turning of the seasons was measured by the depth of mud on the road in the monsoons and the height of the dust kicked up by children's feet in summer.
	www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/08/02/nirad/print.html (414 words)

	Chaudhuri, Nirad Chandra -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Indian author, whose novels firmly established prose as a literary vehicle for the Bengali language and helped create in India a school of fiction on the European model.
		Indian plant physiologist and physicist whose invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later biophysicists.
		Biographical sketch of this Indian statistician, the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342254?tocId=9342254 (544 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		The ‘unknown Indian’, was one of the most renowned, the oldest and the strongest pillars of Indian writing in English.
		He writes about his family antecedents, the rural cultural milieu, the nationalist fervour that swept the land in the wake of the partition of Bengal, the cold war between the rulers and their subjects, the city and the University of Calcutta, the coming of Gandhi and the upsurge of new politics in the twenties.
		His latest book of essays is an indictment of what he called India’s failed leadership, he also laments the decline of the country.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug15/sunday/head4.htm (992 words)

	Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On July 30 1999, Mr Chaudhuri, who was most noted for his first work, 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian', passed away in his adopted country at Oxford leaving behind a vacuum in the literary firmament of the world.
		But, his fears that he would die unknown and unrecognized were allayed during his lifetime itself as he received high literary honors and recognition poured for him from all quarters.
		It is an indictment of what he called India's failed leadership and a lament for the decline of England, the country he adopted in his old age.
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	Books by Chaudhuri in English
		No better account of the penetration of the Indian mind by the West---and, by extension, of the penetration of one culture by another---will be or now can be written.
		What makes it a truly great autobiography is that the author is himself the illustration of his subject, demonstrating in every line how the highest achievements of European culture can be effortlessly absorbed by the Hindu personality without making it any less convoluted, deep, wildly humorous, devious and sublime.
		Among her men of letters, he is unique; for the fertility of his mind and the polymathic range of his interests, as well for the lucidity of his prose and his sheer integrity.
	www-stat.stanford.edu /~naras/ncc/engbooks.html (755 words)

	The Hindu : Nirad Chaudhuri's Nehru
		ON September 8, 1951, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was published in London.
		The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was met with considerable acclaim in the United Kingdom, but almost universally condemned in India.
		Then, after he had retired from AIR, an informal ban was placed on his talking on or writing scripts for the organisation, in those days a valuable source of supplementary income for writers.
	hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2002/11/24/stories/2002112400580300.htm (1461 words)

	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (New York Review Books Classics)
		Nirad Chaudhuri was often unfairly dismissed in his lifetime as a 20th-century equivalent to the notorious mimic men evoked in Macaulay's infamous "Minute on Indian Education": he adopts the attitudes of the British ruling class during the Raj so thoroughly he might at a casual glance be dismissed as such.
		This book, his masterpiece, is a brilliant semi-autobiographical study of the political situation of the first half of the Indian twentieth century.
		Unfortunately later, when Chaudhuri surrenders reminiscence for political analysis, he becomes more tedious than illuminating (you get the suspicion that, were you to visit him as Ian Jack, who provided the book's fine introduction, you would have been compelled despite yourself to check your watch discreetly during one of Chaudhuri's lengthy and self-satisfied tirades).
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	NYRB: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) was born in the town of Kishorganj in East Bengal in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
		His first book, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, was published in 1951 and was followed by many others, including The Continent of Circe, for which he won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, and Thy Hand Great Anarch!
		The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7697 (98 words)

	Nirad C. Chaudhuri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was a productive and prolific writer till the very end; publishing his last work at the age of 99.
		His masterpiece, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian ISBN 0-201-15576-1 published in 1951 put him on the short list of great Indian English writers.
		Casting a dyspeptic eye on Indian Independence in 1947, he wrote his autobiography, which spanned the height of the British Raj in India to its eventual dissolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nirad_C._Chaudhuri (312 words)

	Chaudhuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		First published in 1951, it rapidly established itself as a classic work combining intimate memoirs with a sweeping, highly individual survey of Indian hisroy and culture in the final era of the Raj.
		Nirad C Chaudhuri was born in East Bengal in 1897 and settled in England in 1970.
		An Essay on the Course of Indian History
	www.federationpress.com.au /Books/Chaudhuri.htm (149 words)

	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
		The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
		An acclaimed memoir, first published in 1951, which launched Chaudhuri's literary star (he was dubbed "Honorary Commander of the British Empire" in 1992).
		It's at once the story of Chaudhuri's youth in rural Bengal and Calcutta and the story of modern India's origins -- a book with a powerful intellectual kick which is steeped in time and place.
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	NYRB Classics: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
		Describing his childhood in the Bengali countryside and his youth in Calcutta—and telling the story of modern India from his own fiercely independent viewpoint—Chaudhuri fashions a book of deep conviction, charm, and intimacy that is also a masterpiece of the writer's art.
		That he has swum so strongly against the current has not, however, prevented The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian from being recognized as the masterpiece that it is.
		No better account of the penetration of the Indian mind by the West—and by extension, of the penetration of one culture by another—will be or now can be written.
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	Sunday Headlines
		The writer’s first book, The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian, that was so mysteriously recommended to Macmillan decades ago, is still read today with great pleasure or great disgust.
		While the first writer escaped his Indian roots and settled down in England to an uneasy (even frustrated) life, the second one left England and kept coming again and again to India to fulfil a destiny he didn’t really believe in.
		He is still here, eking out an uncomfortable, restless itinerant existence, braving heat and ill-health till he’ll be able to stand it no more and then he’ll catch the next flight home.
	www.newindpress.com /sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEC20030530052639 (1154 words)

	Poets & Writers - News: August 9, 1999
		His first English-language book, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), chronicled his life as a failed academic and military careerist, as well as a staunch defender, and critic, of Indian culture.
		A heart attack claimed the life of the revolutionary writer after hospitalization, Tuesday, for an asthma attack.
		The editorial focus will be on timeless stories from the guides that they seek, an approach that they hope will allow the books to remain un-updated and perform well as backlist titles.
	www.pw.org /mag/news/News990809.htm (711 words)

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		In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth.
		Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs.
		Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain.
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		His first book,' The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian', was published in 1951 and was followed by many others, including ' The Continent of Circe', for which he won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, and 'Thy Hand Great Anarch!', a second volume of memoirs.
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