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He was more than 50 years old when his first book was published; he moved from Delhi to Oxford when he was 73 and died there in at the ripe old age of
Nirad C Chaudhuri was an extraordinary man. His first book, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, was hailed by VS Naipaul as perhaps “the one great book to have come out of the Indo-British encounter”.
Chaudhuri was “possibly the finest Indian writer of English in the whole of the 20th century,” says Ian Jack in his foreword to the autobiography, “and certainly the finest in the first three quarters of it before the burst of Indian writing in English that followed the publication of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.”
“This is setting aside,” he adds,”the artfully simple fiction of RK Narayan, which Chaudhuri had no time for — an antagonism which was gently reciprocated by the almost equally long-lived South Indian novelist.”
I enjoy the “artfully simple fiction” of Narayan — and Chaudhuri is his exact opposite. While Narayan is content describing people and places, Chaudhuri is an intellectual, writing about his life, the books he had read, and Indian society and culture.
I could understand why Ian Ja
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN: A CRITIQUE OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
International Research Journal of Humanities, Language and Literature ISSN: () Impact Factor- , Volume 6, Issue 01, January Website- , Email : editor@ , editoraarf@ AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN: A CRITIQUE OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY Isha Parashar Asst. Prof. of English KVA DAV College for Women Karnal (Haryana) ABSTRACT Nirad C. Chaudhuri has always been accused by the critics for being defensive for the ways of the Britishers that they used during the British rule in India. This accusation has damaged his reputation as a literary writer in India. However, some other critics see the things from a wider perspective, and therefore, do not hesitate in releasing Chaudhuri from this accusation. These critics give their view that Chaudhuri's criticism of Indian social life emerges from his predilection for Western social life. Thus, in his autobiography, the author describes his personal experiences in detail which shaped his personality in a particular manner. It is an acknowledged fact that the personality of an individual depends on one’s heredity and environment. Both the factors significantly affect on
Nirad C Chaudhuri’s The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the autobiography of a writer from India, Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Written when he was around 50, it documents his life in Kishoreganj, a small town in present-day Bangladesh, from his birth in The book relates his mental and intellectual growth, his life and development in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, the connotation of this is dual-changing Indian situation and historical forces that were leaving an imminent affair with British from India. The book is divided into four books, each consisting of four chapters and a preface. The first book is entitled “Early Environment” and its four chapters are: 1) My Place of Birth, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) The Place of My Mother and 4) England.
The autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers over the years. It was thought by Winston Churchill to be one of the best books he had ever read. “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.” V. S. Naipaul said. It was included in The New Oxford Book
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri is an outstanding prose-writer with an excellent poise of style. He bursts into sudden fame in with his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. In India very few writers take more pains with their writings. He has made it clear in his Autobiography that &#;My notion of what is proper and honest between Englishmen and Indians to-day is clear-cut and decisive. I feel that the only course of conduct permissible to either side in their political and public relations at the present moment is an honourable taciturnity.&#; His long Autobiography is both a personal record and a post-modern report of British rule in India. He exhibits his scholarship, understanding, insight, a sense of history and capacity for imagination
It is really beyond one&#;s comprehension to judge the capacity of man who writes a book about a country after seeing it for only five weeks. At the age of fifty seven, Mr. Chaudhuri found himself able to take the first trip of his life outside India. He had five weeks in England at the invitation of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a week in Rome and a week in Paris.
He published one or two art
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