Nirad C. Chaudhuri

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
Biographer
Essayist
gptkbp:activeYears 1930
1999
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Calcutta
gptkbp:awards Padma Bhushan
Honorary_D.Litt_from_the_University_of_Leeds
gptkbp:birthDate 1897-11-23
gptkbp:children Sukanta Chaudhuri
Sukanya_Chaudhuri
gptkbp:deathDate 1999-08-01
gptkbp:field Literature
Cultural Criticism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Nirad C. Chaudhuri
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Amitav_Ghosh
gptkb:V._S._Naipaul
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Rabindranath_Tagore
gptkb:W._B._Yeats
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi
gptkbp:involvedIn Cultural studies
Literary criticism
Social commentary
Travel writing
Essays
Political commentary
Historical analysis
Memoir writing
Philosophical writing
Autobiographical writing
gptkbp:knownFor Critique of British colonialism
Cultural_observations_of_India
Exploration_of_Indian_identity
gptkbp:language gptkb:Bengali
English
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Bengali
Indian
gptkbp:notableWork The Continent of Circe
A_Passage_to_England
The_Autobiography_of_an_Unknown_Indian
gptkbp:occupation Writer
gptkbp:placeOfBirth Bhagalpur,_India
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Oxford,_England
gptkbp:residence gptkb:England
gptkb:India
gptkbp:spouse Maya_Chaudhuri
gptkbp:website Official website