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Considers The Autobiography's value lies in the rendering of a unique and unusual
personality. Claims Chaudhuri's importance rests on his ability to test some comfortable
illusions concerning Indian tradition. Psychological probing of Chaudhuri's autobiography
lacks any psychoanalytical depth.
JUMAR, S. Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Man and Writer Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1984,
84 pp.
KARNANI, CHETAN. Nirad C. Chaudhuri New York: Twayne (World Authors Series),
1980, 140 pp.
MISHRA, GANESWAR. see entry under Mohanti, Prafulla.
MISHRA, SUDESH. "The Two Chaudhuris: Historical Witness and Pseudo-Historian" JCL
1 (1988):7-15.
Confirms Chaudhuri's authenticity in passages "where social, political or religious
dilemmas take precedence over personal traumas." His pseudo-historical side appears in
sections full of gossip, name-calling and malice best described as imaginative history.
Questions the veracity of Chaudhuri's claim to recording history as an objective, value-free,
disinterested chronicler. Traces the twin pillars of Chaudhuri's thought to Darwinian evolution
and Jungian collective unconscious.
NAIK, M.K. "Nirad C. Chaudhuri's First Publication" Journal of Commonwealth Literature
19.1(1984):98-107.
An introduction to "Defence of India or Nationalization of Indian Army" (1935), a
seventy-three page essay. Finds the structure divided into four sections, 1) "The Problem
Stated", 2) "Function", 3) "Man Power", 4) "Command and Control". Notes the
perceptiveness of Chaudhuri's analysis and the strength of British imperialism under which the
Indian army was subsumed.
NAIK, M.K. "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian: A Note" WLWE 21.1 (Spring
1982):160-6.
"Unbridled egoism" gives Chaudhuri's autobiography a distinctive quality. Asserts the
autobiography's value as an important social document. Compares Chaudhuri to Jawaharlal
Nehru's Autobiography (1962) and reveals a "radical contrast" between them based on the
issue of motivation for the writing itself, Nehru declaring his purpose to be knowledge of the
self while Chaudhuri consciously set out to record a "national. . . history".
NAIK, M.K. "Pride and Prejudice Unabated" Indian Literature, 135, (1990): 131-8.
Discusses three basic elements in this second part of Chaudhuri's autobiography, a)
the disclosure of the author's personality, b) the men he knew and observed, c) the political
and cultural milieu of his time. Examines the details of Chaudhuri's purported factuality and
finds some inconsistencies based on political opposition to his worldview. Specifically
questions his portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Claims Chaudhuri's interpretation of recent Indian
history biased by anglophilia and Indian-baiting.
NAIKAR, BASAVARAJ S. Critical Articles on Nirad C. Chaudhuri Dharwad: Sivaranjani
Publications, 1986, viii + 115 pp.