Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Part II

SPECIFICATION: Publisher : Jaico Publishing House By :  Nirad C. Chaudhur Binding : Paperback Language : English   Edition : 2008 Pages :  1008 pages Size : :21.6 x 14 x 5 cm ISBN-10 :  8179928306 ISBN-13 :  978-8179928301 DESCRIPTION: Anyone who wishes to understand what has happened in India in the twentieth century politically and culturally must read Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Among her men of letters he is unique, for the fertility of his mind and the polymathic range of his interests, as well as for the lucidity of his prose and his sheer integrity. Geoffrey Moor house (Chaudhuri) has spent a lifetime kicking against the myths and shibboleths held by the majority of his fellow countrymen, he has ridiculed the pacifism of Mahatma Gandhi. He has castigated Indian nationalism for being corrupt, self-seeking and destructive, (he has) vented his spleen at the stupidity and philistinism of the British in India. His latest (book) is almost a thousand pages long. It testifies to (his) elo