11 Facts About Nirad Chaudhuri

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri CBE was an Indian writer.

Nirad Chaudhuri was born in Kishoregunj, Mymensingh, East Bengal, British India, the second of eight children of Upendra Narayan Nirad Chaudhuri, a lawyer, and of Sushila Sundarani Chaudhurani.

Nirad Chaudhuri's parents were liberal middle-class Hindus who belonged to the Brahmo Samaj movement.

Nirad Chaudhuri was a prolific writer even in the last years of his life, publishing his last work at the age of 99.

Nirad Chaudhuri too died in Oxford, three months short of his 102nd birthday, in 1999.

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Nirad Chaudhuri lived at 20 Lathbury Road from 1982 until his death and a blue plaque was installed by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2008.

Nirad Chaudhuri is concerned with describing the conditions in which an Indian grew to manhood in the early decades of the century, and as he feels that the basic principle of book is that environment shall have precedence over its product; he describes its affectionate and sensuous detail the three places that had the greatest influence on him: Kishoreganj, the country town in which he lived till he was twelve; Bangram; his ancestral village; and Kalikutch, his mother's village.

Nirad Chaudhuri courted controversy in the newly independent India due to the dedication of the book, which ran thus:.

Nirad Chaudhuri was not asked to prepare any more talks on a free-lance basis because of severe criticism directed at him by senior figures- like Krishna Menon.

Nirad Chaudhuri argued that his critics were not careful-enough readers; "the dedication was really a condemnation of the British rulers for not treating us as equals", he wrote in a 1997 special edition of Granta.

Nirad Chaudhuri reflects on his experiences from the perspective of a man who had grown up in the British Empire and was now the citizen of an independent India.