Chaudhuri, Nirad Chandra

Chaudhuri, Nirad Chandra
▪ 2000

      Indian Hindu author and scholar who opposed the withdrawal of British colonial rule from the Indian subcontinent and the subsequent rejection of Western culture in an independent India; he was best-known for his volumes of memoirs, notably The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), A Passage to England (1959), and Thy Hand, Great Anarch (1987) (b. Nov. 23, 1897, Kishorganj, East Bengal, India [now Bangladesh]—d. Aug. 1, 1999, Oxford, Eng.).

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