The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.Tags
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Prose in the hands of this master is like Ravi Shankar with a Sitar, a Tiger Woods with a golf ball, Pele with a soccer ball etc.
Prose in the hands of this master is like Ravi Shankar with a Sitar, a Tiger Woods with a golf ball, Pele with a soccer ball etc.
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- Canonical title
- The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
- Original publication date
- 1951
- People/Characters
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Important places
- British India; India
- Important events
- Indian independence
- Dedication
- To the memory of the British empire in India which conferred subjecthood on us but withheld citizenship; to which yet every one of us threw out the challenge: "Civis Britannicus Sum" because all that was good and living withi... (show all)n us was made, shaped, and quickened by the same British rule
- First words
- Kishorganj, my birthplace, I have called a country town, but this description, I am afraid, will call up wholly wrong associations.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I have made the discovery that the last act is glorious however squalid the play may be in all the rest.
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