Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was born in Kishoreganj, in East Bengal, on 23 November 1897, the son of a Brahmo lawyer. A history graduate of the Scottish Church College in Calcutta, he did not sit the master's examinations. A journalist at the Modern Review and the Prabasi, secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, he became a political commentator at All India Radio, in Calcutta and then in Delhi. Settled in Oxford, he wrote there on Hinduism and on Max Müller, was made in 1992 an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and died there on 1 August 1999.

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• EssayThe Autobiography of an Unknown IndianNirad C. Chaudhuri · 1951Literature