Author: Nirad C ChaudhuriPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 1997Language: EnglishPages: 137ISBN/UPC (if available): 019564189
Description
In this new book written in the centenary of his birth, the author begins to bear the collected wisdom of a life spent as a dispassionate scholar. This work is a highly readable and visionary meditation on the twentieth century as it draws to a close. Full of astute observations, at once engaging and disturbing, this work will remain an enduring monument to a man known throughout the world as one of India's finest and most significant writers.