Thy Hand, Great Anarch!
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Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a 1987 autobiographical sequel to India
n essayist Nirad C. Chaudhuri
's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope
's The Dunciad
which runs thus:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1628.html
Written when he was in his 80's, this book provides a perspective to the Indian political scene from the 20's to India's independence.The book covers the writer's working life in India first as a clerk in the Military Accounts Department, then as an editor, writer, publicist.While as a clerk, he came across Arnold's 'Scholar Gypsy
' which inspired him to leave his secure government job and become a writer, which he thought was his calling. Although, always a severe critic of Mahatma Gandhi, N.C.C shows a remarkable respect to the Mahatma when the latter led the masses in the Civil Disobedience Movement. And, even, for a little time he participated in the struggle shedding the air of an intellectual man. Category:1988 books
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n essayist Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Italic textNirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali−English writer and cultural commentator...
's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the autobiographical work of one of India's most controversial writers -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri. He wrote this when he was around fifty and records his life from his birth at 1897 in Kishorganj, a small town in present Bangladesh...
. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
's The Dunciad
The Dunciad
The Dunciad is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times. The first version was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a...
which runs thus:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1628.html
Written when he was in his 80's, this book provides a perspective to the Indian political scene from the 20's to India's independence.The book covers the writer's working life in India first as a clerk in the Military Accounts Department, then as an editor, writer, publicist.While as a clerk, he came across Arnold's 'Scholar Gypsy
The Scholar Gipsy
"The Scholar Gipsy" is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing...
' which inspired him to leave his secure government job and become a writer, which he thought was his calling. Although, always a severe critic of Mahatma Gandhi, N.C.C shows a remarkable respect to the Mahatma when the latter led the masses in the Civil Disobedience Movement. And, even, for a little time he participated in the struggle shedding the air of an intellectual man. Category:1988 books