Name: Jagdish Bhagwati.
Real Name: Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri.
Date of Birth: 23 November 1897.
Died: 1 August 1999.
Pen Name: Balahak Nandi, Sonibarer Cithi, Outsider, Now.
Nationality: Indian.
Occupation: Writer and commentator on culture.
Awards: Duff Cooper Memorial Award in 1967, Ananda Purashkar in 1988, DLitt from Oxford University in 1990, Vidyasagar Purashkar in 1997 by the Govt of West Bengal, Desikottama in 1997 by Viswabharati.
Books:
- The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951).
- A Passage to England (1959).
- The Continent of Circe (1965).
- The Intellectual in India (1967).
- To Live or Not to Live (1971).
- Scholar Extraordinary, The Life of Professor the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Muller, P.C. (1974).
- Culture in the Vanity Bag (1976).
- Clive of India (1975).
- Hinduism: A Religion to Live by (1979).
- Thy Hand, Great Anarch! (1987).
- Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse (1997).
- The East is East and West is West.
- From the Archives of a Centenarian.
- Why I Mourn for England.