About the Book: Autobiography of An Unknown Indian: Part Ii
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 Moorhouse
(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