Kalyani University B.A 1st SEM. General (INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH)- PROJECT on "MY BIRTH PLACE"

NAME OF THE TOPIC: 

MY BIRTH PLACE

SOURCE:

This text is the first chapter  of Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri's most famous book "An Autobiography of an Unknown Indian"

NAME OF WRITER:

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri

ABOUT WRITER

BIRTH: 

On 23 November 1897, at Kishoreganj, Mymensingh, British India (present-day Bangladesh)

EDUCATION:

Chaudhuri was educated in Kishorganj and Kolkata. For his FA (school-leaving) course he attended Ripon College in Calcutta along with the famous Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. Following this, he attended Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he studied history as his undergraduate major. He graduated with honors in history and topped the University of Calcutta merit list.

CONTRIBUTIONS:

• The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)
• A Passage to England (1959)
• The Continent of Circe (1965)
• The Intellectual in India (1967)
• To Live or Not to Live (1971)
• Culture in the Vanity Bag (1976)
• Clive of India (1975)
• Hinduism: A Religion to Live by (1979)
• Thy Hand, Great Anarch! (1987)
• Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse (1997)

DIED:

On 1 August 1999 (aged 101) at Lathbury Road, Oxford, England

TOPICS RELATED TO TEXT:

RELATION BETWEEN TWO SIDES OF THE RIVER:

Writer's birthplace was Kishoregunj. That town was divided into two nearly in equal by the river. The part of the writer contained mosque, temple, library, courts, treasury, school, hospital. On the other side, there were bazar and all important shops. As a result of it, that part majorly backed the economics of town. So the part that belonged to the writer was enriched with the strength of religion, culture, politics and divine rituals and they took pride in them and they always hated the people of other side.

REACTION OF THE AUTHOR SEEING THE PROSTITUDES:

Writer's birthplace was Kishoregunj that was divided into two nearly in equal sizes by a river. On the opposite side of the river there were thirty or forty small huts. Those huts were inhabited by the prostitutes. The author feared and hated those women. If whenever they visited the author's side for any reason and came in front of the author, the boy author, in fear, used to put his hands on his eyes  or run away to avoid their sight.

QUARTER-TO-FOUR-ANNA ZAMINDAR HOUSE:

The people of the author's side did not have to cross the river and go to the other side unless there was a quarter-to-four-anna zamindar house. The zamindar i.e. the owner of that house had fifteenth sixty fourth share of a big estate property on the other side. That estate was founded in late 18th century or in early 19th century. That zamindar house was famous as an attraction as in that house there was water supplier tank that supplied pure, clearest and coolest water in the town for drinking.

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ANIT BARUI
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