• ISBN13: 9788126925780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2017
• Pages: 338
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 457 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

This book brings together critical articles on all the English works of the brilliant Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri—from his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian—up to his last work, The East is East and the West is West. Though these chapters are independent in their chronological order, they are interconnected thematically. Nirad Chaudhuri happens to be an important prose writer in the tradition of Indian English prose writers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan and Khushwant Singh. Nirad Chaudhuri is a critic of modern culture having extensively commented on Indians and the British, their national character, behavior, their love-hate relationship, and their social and political life. He is not merely a journalist, but a solid scholar backed up by his historical scholarship, encyclopedic range of interests and clarity of thought and style. He was a controversial writer who provokes the reader to think afresh on all the important issues of life. The book also highlights the characteristic features of his prose style. It will be useful for the students and teachers of Indian English Literature, and researchers in the field.

Basavarãj Nãikar (b.1949), M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. (California), UGC Emeritus Fellow and Former Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnãţak University, Dhãrwãđ (India), is a bilingual writer in English and Kannađa. He has published several reviews and research articles in national and international journals. He reviews Indian literary works for World Literature Today (Oklahoma, USA) regularly. He has translated many works from Kannađa into English and vice versa. His specializations in teaching and research include Shakespeare Studies, Indian English Literature, Indian Literature in English Translation, American, Anglo-Indian, Commonwealth Literature, and Translation: Theory and Practice. He is the recipient of Gulbarga University Award for translation, and Olive Reddick Award from A.S.R.C. Hyderãbãd for research. He is a Fellow of the United Writers of India, New Delhi. His The Thief of Nãgarahaļļi and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for the Best First Book from Eurasia in 2000.

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian as Descriptive Ethnology
• 3. A Passage to England: A Travelogue
• 4. Essay as Satire: The Continent of Circe
• 5. To Live or Not to Live: An Essay
• 6. The Intellectual in India: A Critique
• 7. Scholar Extraordinary: An Epical Biography of Max Muller
• 8. Chaudhuri’s Sartorial Vision in Culture in the Vanity Bag
• 9. Clive of India: A Political Biography
• 10. Hinduism: A Religion to Live By: A Historical and Panoramic View
• 11. Thy Hand, Great Anarch!: Autobiography as History
• 12. Chaudhuri’s Prophetic Vision in Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse
• 13. From the Archives of a Centenarian
• 14. Why I Mourn for England
• 15. The East is East and the West is West
• 16. Chaudhuri’s Prose Style
• Conclusion
• Select Bibliography