Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) was born in the town of
Kishorganj in East Bengal in the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond
Jubilee. His first book, The Autobiography of an Unknown
Indian, was published in 1951 and was followed by many others,
including The Continent of Circe, for which he won the Duff
Cooper Memorial Prize, and Thy Hand Great Anarch!, a second
volume of memoirs. Chaudhuri moved to England in 1970. In 1992
Queen Elizabeth II conferred upon him the title of Honorary
Commander of the British Empire.
Ian Jack was the editor of The Independent on
Sunday and of Granta. He is the author of The
Country Formerly Known as Great Britain and he writes
regularly for The Guardian.
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