Books, Articles on Chaudhuri

• Features and reports on Nirad Chaudhuri's Centenary

  These are generally dated around the period November 20--25, 1997.
  • Birthday Greetings. The editorial in this newspaper, Calcutta Online dated November 24, 1997, has a tribute to Mr. Chaudhuri.
  • The Beginning of Another Century for Nirad Chaudhuri. This is a news report on Nirad C. Chaudhuri's 100th birthday. November 24, 1997.
  • Another report on his 100th birthday. November 24, 1997.
  • The First Century is a nice article by Amita Malik. November 22, 1997.
  • The President and Prime Minister of India congratulate Nirad Chaudhuri on turning 100. November 24, 1997.
  • An evening with Nirad Babu. Recollections of a meeting on the eve of his 100th birthday. November 22, 1997.
  • Out of Line: A Stylish Innings is another tribute to Nirad Chaudhuri. October 29, 1997.
  • An Unbeaten Century is a feature in the Daily Star News by Waheedul Haque. November 24, 1997.
  • Dissolution, Nirad Babu and Grappelli. A reminiscence. December 4, 1997.
  • Picture this Nirad is an article by Kanchan Gupta on Nirad Chaudhuri in the Pioneer dated November 22, 1997.
  • From Unknown Indian to GOST. An editorial on Indian writing in English. November 22, 1997.
  • Sunday Soliloquies. This has a paragraph on Mr. Chaudhuri's address at the Nehru Center in London. August 10, 1997.
  • A Bengali and an Englishman is a very readable article by Amulya Ganguly on Nirad Chaudhuri in the Hindustan Times dated November 24, 1997.
  • The Unknown Indian turns 100 is an article by S. Krishnan in the Indian Review of Books. December 1997.
  • The Last Englishman by Pankaj Mishra in the Prospect magazine dated November 1997.
• East is East, West is West and both are declining is an article by K. Natwar Singh in the Asian Age dated December 17, 1996.
• A house for Mr. Chaudhuri is the first of a recent four-part article by Fakrul Alam published in the Daily Star dated Jan 10, 1998. Here are the parts in order.
  1. A House for Mr. Chaudhuri, Part 1.
  2. A House for Mr. Chaudhuri, Part 2.
  3. A House for Mr. Chaudhuri, Part 3.
  4. A House for Mr. Chaudhuri, Part 4.
• The Rediff on the NeT Special: Nirad C. Chaudhuri. This has excerpts from his latest book.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The First Hundred Years. A Celebration. Edited by Swapan Dasgupta, Harper Collins, 1997. A review of this book is available online. Another review by Vijay Nambisan is available too.
• Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals. by Edward Shils, edited by Joseph Epstein, University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• The Last Englishman by Sunanda K. Datta Ray in Time Asia.
• The Beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's Garden, by Margery Sabin. Essays in Criticism, January 1994.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri by C. P. Verghese 1973. ISBN 089253091.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri by Chetan Karnani. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri: at home in Oxford. The American Scholar v. 60 (Spring 1991) p. 242-6
• The unknown Indian; on Nirad Chaudhuri's achievement by Edward Albert Shils in Encounter (London, England) v. 71 (Nov. 1988) p. 64-7.
• Citizen of the world by Edward Albert Shils in The American Scholar v. 57 (Autumn 1988) p. 549-73.
• Chaudhuri, Nirad C., 1897-, Indian author and journalist by Naomi Bliven in The New Yorker v. 64 (Nov. 21 1988) p. 144-7.
• Perceiving India: Through the Works of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, R.K. Narayan and Ved Mehta by David Scott Philip. Envoy Press, July 1986. ISBN: 093871905X.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri's first publication by M. K. Naik in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature v. 19 no. 1 (1984) p. 98-107.
• The Beast in Nirad Chaudhuri's Garden by Margery Sabin in Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (EIC), Oxford, England. Article in: vol. 44 no. 1, 1994 Jan. Pages 26-48.
• Nirad Chaudhuri: Autobiography and Self Identity by B. D. Sharma in Language Forum: A Half-Yearly Journal of Language and Literature (LangF), New Delhi, India. Article in: vol. 18 no. 1-2, 1992 Jan-Dec, Pages 181-85.
• Passages to England by John Thieme. Book article in D'haen, Theo (ed.); Bertens, Hans (ed.). Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (Post-)Colonial, and the (Post-)Feminist. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 357pp. Pages 55-78.
• A Slow Alienation: Nirad Chaudhuri's Bengali Chidhood in The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Cynthia Abrioux. Commonwealth Essays and Studies (CE&S), Dijon, France. Article in: vol. 15 no. 1, 1992 Autumn, pages 20-28.
• Remembering India by David Pryce-Jones in The New Criterion (NewC), New York, NY. Article in: vol. 7 no. 9, 1989 May, pages 77-80.
• Indian Autobiography: Gandhi and Chaudhuri. Sel. Conf. Papers by Jeffrey Meyers. Book article in Ramelb, Carol (ed.). Biography: East and West. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 1989. xvi, 237 pp. pages 113-121.
• The Two Chaudhuris: Historical Witness and Pseudo- Historian by Sudesh Mishra. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL), London, England. Article in: vol. 23 no. 1, 1988, pages 7-15.
• The Plight of the Aryans and the Nightmare of History: Nirad Chaudhuri's Alternative View by Haydn Williams. SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SPAN), Murdoch, WA, Australia. Article in: vol. 24, 1987 Apr, pages 190-207.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri : the renaissance man by Raj Kumar Paul. Book published by Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 1998. 179 pages.
• Mirrorwork : 50 years of indian writing, 1947-1997 Published by H. Holt & Co., NY, 1997. Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West.
• Alternative imaginings in the autobiographies of Jawaharlal Nehru, Nirad C. Chaudhuri and Mohandas K. Gandhi Thesis by Anita Jain (A.B., Honors in Sanskrit and Indian Studies)--Harvard University, 1994.
• Commonwealth Literature by C. D. Narasimhaiah has an article on the autobiographies of Nehru and Chaudhuri. Pencraft International, 1995. ISBN 81-85753-06-7. This is an amusing read.
• A Manifold Voice by William Walsh has a chapter on Chaudhuri. Chatto & Windus, London, 1970. See also Commonwealth Literature by William Walsh, Oxford University press, 1973.