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About Nirad C Chaudhuri

Nirad C. Chaudhuri (born November 23, 1897, Kishorganj, East Bengal, British India [now in Bangladesh]—died August 1, 1999, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) Bengali author and scholar who was opposed to the withdrawal of British colonial rule from the Indian subcontinent and the subsequent rejection of Western culture in independent India.

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Books of Nirad C Chaudhuri

A Passage To England

A Passage To England

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a well-known Bengali intellectual, a writer, editor and literary journalist who had worked for the independence activist Sarat Chandra Bose in the thirties, but later became rather critical of the politics of post-independence

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A Passage To England

A Passage To England

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a well-known Bengali intellectual, a writer, editor and literary journalist who had worked for the independence activist Sarat Chandra Bose in the thirties, but later became rather critical of the politics of post-independence

2 Readers
15 Articles
THE CONTINENT OF CIRCE

THE CONTINENT OF CIRCE

The Continent of Circe is a 1965 book of essays written by Indian author Nirad C. Chaudhuri that was winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 1966. In this book, Chaudhuri discusses Indian society from a socio-psychological perspective, commenting on Hind

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THE CONTINENT OF CIRCE

THE CONTINENT OF CIRCE

The Continent of Circe is a 1965 book of essays written by Indian author Nirad C. Chaudhuri that was winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 1966. In this book, Chaudhuri discusses Indian society from a socio-psychological perspective, commenting on Hind

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Articles of Nirad C Chaudhuri

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THE DOMINANT MINORITY I COME now to the last element in the population of India which can be distinguished from the groups I have des- cribed, as a separate ethnic entity with its own collective psyc

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THE HALF-CASTE MINORITIES: GENETIC AND CULTURAL IT is with the utmost reluctance that I write this chapter. The communities with which I am going to deal in it are the underdogs of Indian society, an

Chapter 13-

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THE LEAST OF THE MINORITIES IN India today all non-Hindus are called minorities, and this in itself is an indication of their political status. The most significant thing about this usage is that it

Chapter 12-

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The Hindus did something like that, but with far greater thoroughness and in a wholly different spirit. They brought sexual life into their religion, or religion into their sexual life-in effect both

Chapter 11-

15 December 2023
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THE ANODYNE THE impulsive and for the most part unconscious de- fence which the Hindus put up against the ceaseless: beating of suffering on their life could not be described' as fighting, hardly eve

Chapter 10-

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THE DEFIANCE In spite of the loss of recollection which accompanied it, the clinging of the Hindus to the symbols of their pre- Indian existence had both life and beauty so long as they themselves re

Chapter 9-

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AULD LANG SYNE THIS, however, could not be the end of the matter with them. No one can live with a continual sense of pain and void. So unphilosophical Hindus, too, hit upon cer- tain ways of dealing

Chapter 8-

14 December 2023
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NOSTALGIA FOR THE FORGOTTEN HOME I AM now going to describe the tribulations of the first Europeans in India, who colonized the country in ancient times as their collateral descendants did North Amer

Chapter 7-

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THE VICTIMS OF CIRCE THE solution of even the most complex of problems is often a matter of finding the right clues, be they ever so faint at the start. As it happens, there is at least one ready-to-

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JANUS AND HIS TWO FACES IN all the essays that I have planned to write on Indian life the Hindus will necessarily figure as the main charac- ter, and in one or two even as the only one. This saves me