Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) was an Indian writer whose books move between autobiography, essays and cultural history. His titles include Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, the travel and social essays of A Passage to England, and The Continent of Circe. Chaudhuri was a long-time resident of Oxford, where the university gave him an honorary degree in letters in 1990, and in 1992 he was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.