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Indian writer (1897 – 1999)

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri CBE (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian writer.^[1]

In 1990, Oxford University awarded Chaudhuri, by then a long-time resident of the city of Oxford, an HonoraryDegree in Letters.

In 1992, he was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).^[2]

Biography

Chaudhuri was born in Kishoregunj, Mymensingh, East Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh), the second of eight children of Upendra Narayan Chaudhuri, a lawyer, and of Sushila Sundarani Chaudhurani.^[4] His parents were liberal middle-class Hindus who belonged to the Brahmo Samaj movement.

After passing the FA examination, he was admitted to Ripon College (now Surendranath College) in Calcutta along with eminent Bengali writer, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. After that, Neerad got admission in history department in Scottish Church College in Calcutta.

As a student of Scottish Chur