a)
TITLE: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
AUTHOR: Nirad Chaudhuri
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
PLACE: Berkeley and Los Angeles
YEAR: 1968 [first published 1951]
BINDING: Fine hardback with dust jacket covered inmylar
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xii + 506
SIZE:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Depth: 3.7 cm

NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI [1897-1999]
Nirad Chaudhuri's 2-volume autobiography with interesting inscriptions.

Inscribed on front fly-leaf: "This book will perhaps bring into the Norfolk scene a feel of that far-off East Bengal where I did have in my boyhood imagined glimpses of Norfolk, now visited. (see page 303)/ Nirad C. Chaudhuri/ 5th August 1968".

Daily Telegraph obituary [August 2, 1999] loosely inserted.

b)
TITLE: Thy Hand, Great Anarch !
SUB TITLE: India: 1921-1952
AUTHOR: Nirad Chaudhuri
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1987
EDITION: First
BINDING: Hardback with very gooddust jacket
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xxviii + 979
SIZE:
Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Depth: 5 cm

Signed in full on front flyleaf at Oxford, 23 Nov. 1987, his 90th birthday, below a two-line quote from Virgil in Latin with a two-lineEnglish translation in brackets followed by a five-line quote from Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali, all inscribed by Chaudhuri.