Autobiography of an unknown indian woman gave

by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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• The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is a 1951 autobiography by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. It is a memoir of his life, from his childhood in a small village in Bengal to his adulthood in Calcutta and London. The book is divided into three parts, each of which covers a different period of his life.

  The first part of the book covers Chaudhuri's childhood and early education in Bengal. He recounts his experiences growing up in a traditional Hindu family, and his struggles to reconcile his traditional upbringing with the modern world. He also describes his experiences with the British Raj, and his encounters with British culture and education.

  The second part of the book covers Chaudhuri's time in Calcutta, where he studied English literature and worked as a journalist. He recounts his experiences with the Bengali intelligentsia, and his encounters with the

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  The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

  August 27, 2019

  Nirad Chaudhuri was the product of the refined Anglo-Bengali humanist culture that briefly grew during the last generations of British rule. The most famous products of this renaissance were Rabindranath Tagore and Manmohan Roy. This book is a reflection on Chaudhuri's very ordinary life growing up in a small town in the Bengal, and later Calcutta. Although his reflections on that world were often charming, inom was less interested in them than I was in him as a man and his perspective on what was then India. Chaudhuri was an Anglophile of the most severe type. But unlike many others, he was not merely a shallow imitator. He drank deeply from the wellsprings of the europeisk culture that he adored so much. Incredibly, he never even set foot in europe until he was almost in his sixties. He developed an idealized image of England and the West from afar, and was convinced that it was the civilization that he wanted to be a part of. In

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  The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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