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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the tell-all autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, one of the most famous Indian writers of the twentieth century. Summary of the Book In The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri reflects on his long life and decline of the British Empire. The author meticulously describes his childhood in the Bengali countryside and his eventful youth in Calcutta, the city of joy. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the author’s first book and is also a masterpiece of his art. About Nirad C. Chaudhuri Nirad Chaudhuri was a Bengali-English writer and a cultural commentator. He was born in Kishoreganj in 1897 in present-day Bangladesh, but at that time was a part of India. He completed his graduation from Ripon College in Kolkata. He is best known for: A Passage to England, The Continent of Circe, The Intellectual in India, Thy Hand, Great Anarch! and Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse among several other books. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Scholar Extraordinary, a biography of Max Müller, he was later bestowed the title of Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992.