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Country England, India Publication date 1987 Media type book Published in english 1987 | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English Published in English 1987 Originally published 1987 Genre Autobiography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject comparative - historical, cultural and sociological analysis of India and Britain Preceded by Hinduism, a religion to live by Followed by Three horsemen of the new apocalypse Similar The Autobiography of an Unk, Three horsemen of the ne, Hinduism - a religion to live by, The Dunciad, The Hinduism Omnibus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a 1987 autobiographical sequel to Indian 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:
Written when Chaudhuri was in his 80s, this book provides a perspective to the Indian political scene from the 1920s 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 and 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, Chaudhuri shows a remarkable respect for the Mahatma when the latter led the masses in the Civil Disobedience Movement.