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Chaudhuri’s Autobiography may be the one great book to have come out of the Indo-English encounter. 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.
In this new book written in the centenary of his birth, Nirad C. Chaudhuri brings to bear the collected wisdom of a life spent as a dispassionate scholar and a political engage, on one of his central concerns--the decline of western civilization. The book falls into three broad sections: the first part sets out his credo and his belief in reasoned faith, and in what he calls the creative and conservative energies of man, drawing on thinkers like pascal and de ...
This book, the result of a life-time's effort to understand the nature of things Indian, describes the human situation in India after independence. The main feature of the book is the imaginative interpretation of the Hindu personality based on original sources. The author puts forward the revolutionary thesis that the Hindus are really Europeans in India, corrupted and denatured by the tropical environment.
After living all his life in India, and being very much a stay-at-home person, Nirad C Chaudhuri went abroad for the first time at the age of fifty-seven. It was brief, five weeks visit to England. A Passage to England is a vivid account of his delightful voyage to discovery. It is vintage Nirad Chaudhuri. He has written with 'freedom to be himself', without any obligation of being informative, edifying, hortatory, or even serious.