The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhury: Introduction to Conclusion -- englit.in

Q: Explain historically an Identical autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian' (book-1).

Known as Balahak Nandi, who qualifies his graduation from University of Calcutta. He  works at the department of Indian army. The greatest writer Nirad C. Chaudhury wrote his ornamental work ‘The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian’(1951) in the mid-twentieth century. The determined one expresses the aspects of “identity”, and “the contemporary time of KishorGanj”. Chaudhuri was born in 1897 in KishoreGanj. In the story,  he shows  the mental and intellectual development of his life. By examining, a Trinidadian-born British writer Sir Vidiadhar Surja Prasad Naipaul expresses Chaudhuri’s work is a “masterpiece of self-portraiture”, and “a work of great distinction”.

At the beginning of the annals, Chaudhuri was born at KishorGanj in Mymensingh. He  expresses that the rainy season was very hard, and reveals, “we [They] couldn’t walk from the hut, which was our [their] bed. Kitchen and dinning-room about two feet or on a gangway made of bamboos”. When winter comes, the water went down and ugly grey mud-flats came at KishorGanj. On the other hand, From the January to the mid-February, “The Folk Ritual” was organised there at scriber’s venue. Additionally, “Swelee flowers” was so delicious in spring.

The author’s father Upendra Narayan Chaudhari had imported from Decca two American bentwood. On the other hand, the great fair of the “Spring Festival of Krishna” was also held which made an impression “of almost oppressive abundance on us”. We are determined, in KishorGanj, there was sixteen thousand people in total. They were professionally “servants, workmen, shopkeepers, traders and others”.  In the author’s ancestral village, Banagram, where he was lived from 1900 to 1909. When his grandma and grandpa marry, he elicits, “I look down upon the marriages of my ancestors’ and connected them”.

The New House of his ancestors' built in the eighteenth century. On the northern side of the yard was the hall of worship, “The Ramayana and The Mahabharata” were staged there. On the other hand, the “Grand Climax” of the year was, “Durga Puja”. The author’s mother S. Sundarani Chaudhurani belongs to the reformist school. Being a latency, U. N. Chaudhuri and S. S. Chaudhurani started disliking Banagram and moves to KishorGanj. Kalikutch, the mother’s village of Nirad where he visits six times from 1904 to 1909. His last left of the place in 1910 of New Year’s Day. He had a terrible experience about the village where people loved folk poetry and music.

In the segment of English reading, the author and the other boys known as “Brahmoism”, and “Monotheism”. In England, the author says, “I read a lot of English literature and was soon familiar with Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and Shakespeare”. He could recite “Julius Caesar” and “The Marchent of Venice” by William Shakespeare. The author also reads, “Daffodils”, “Upon Westminster Bridge”, and “Full fathom five”. On the other hand, they were interested to meet a Divisional commissioner Mrs. Nathan because she was the first English woman whom they had seen.

In conclusion, Chaudhuri’s complex and multifaceted work ‘The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian’ expresses Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s childhood where he lived. It reveals Chaudhuri’s early life, which was shaped by the cultural and intellectual traditions of Bengal, his experiences in Calcutta exposed him to the broader of social and political issues of colonial India. And the story describes “the tension between tradition and modernity”. Being an imagery, Chaudhuri’s fascination with language and literature. He exposes his early exposure to the classics of Indian and European literature  and his experiences with learning English and Bengali.