Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
The Last Laugh
By Ian Buruma
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921–1952
by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Addison-Wesley, 979 pp., $29.95
Nirad C. Chaudhuri is in many ways a most unusual Indian. Fellow Indians tend to dismiss him with a casual flick of the wrist. 'Oh, him,' said a journalist from Bombay, whose opinion I sought, 'just a cantankerous old fellow.' A more charitable Bengali scholar called him 'a kind of museum piece, a nineteenth-century relic.'
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