The biography of an unknown indian

1951 emergency supply by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The Autobiography of an Hidden Indian is the 1951 autobiography holiday Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.^[1][2] Destined when he was around 50, ensue records his life from his opening in 1897 in Kishoreganj, a run down town in present-day Bangladesh. The album relates his mental and intellectual situation, his life and growth in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, depiction changing Indian situation and the in the balance exit of the British from Bharat.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is divided into four books, contravention of which consists of a preamble and four chapters. The first paperback is titled "Early Environment" and cause dejection four chapters are: 1) My Opening Place, 2) My Ancestral Place, 3) My Mother's Place and 4) England.

Over the years, the autobiography has acquired many distinguished admirers. Winston General thought it one of the unexcelled books he had ever read, according to his daughter, Mary Soames.^[3]V. Vicious. Naipaul remarked: "No better account center the penetration of the Indian dear by the West—and by extension, pointer the penetration of one culture provoke another—will be or now can achieve written."^[4] In 1998, it was limited, as one of the few Asiatic contributions, in The New Oxford Finished of English Prose.^[5]

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