The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. Published by Macmillan, London, 1951. This book made him famous abroad and infamous in India. But as Khushwant Singh has said, the wogs took the bait and having only read the dedication sent up a howl of protest. We have come around now and concede that this is a masterpiece.
Some reviews follow.
Chaudhuri's Autobiography may be the one great book to have come out of the Indo-English encounter. What makes it a truly great autobiography is that the author is himself the illustration of his subject, demonstrating in every line how the highest achievements of European culture can be effortlessly absorbed by the Hindu personality without making it any less convoluted, deep, wildly humorous, devious and sublime. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. A provocative book in the Hindu dated December 7, 1997. A Passage to England.