Chaman Nahal

Chaman Nahal (1927–2013), commonly known as C Nahal and Chaman Nahal Azadi, was an Indian writer of English literature. He was widely considered one of the best exponents of Indian writing in English and is known for his work, Azadi, which is set on India's Independence and her partition. He is also known for his depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as a complex character with human failings.

Life and career Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in British India, present day Pakistan, in 1927. After having done his school education locally, he did his master's in English at University of Delhi in 1948. He continued his education as a British Council Scholar at University of Nottingham (1959–61) and obtained a PhD in English in 1961. While attaining his education, he worked as a lecturer (1949–1962). In 1962, he joined Rajasthan University, Jaipur as reader in English. The next year, he moved to New Delhi as professor of English at the University of New Delhi. He was a Fulbright fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey and served as a visiting professor at various universities in the United States, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Canada and North Korea. He was also a fellow at Cambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for the Indian Express, writing a column talking about books from 1966 to 1973. He died on 29 November 2013 in New Delhi, India.

List of works Novels Work Publisher Year My True Faces Orient 1973 Into Another Dawn Sterling 1977 The English Queens Vision 1979 Sunrise in Fiji Allied 1988 Azadi (Freedom) Arnold-Heinemann & BostonHoughton Mifflin 1975 The Crown and the Loincloth Vikas 1981 The Salt of Life Allied 1990 The Triumph of the Tricolour Allied 1993 The Gandhi Quartet Allied 1993

Short story collection Work Publisher Year The Weird Dance and Other Stories Arya 1965

Uncollected short stories Work Publisher Year "Tons" The Statesman 1977 "The Light on the Lake" Illustrated Weekly of India 1984 "The Take Over" Debonair 1984

Others Work Publisher Year Moby Dick (for children), adaptation of the novel by Herman Melville Eurasia 1965 A Conversation with J. Krishnamurti Arya 1965 D.H. Lawrence: An Eastern View South Brunswick, NJ, A.S. Barnes 1971 The Narrative Pattern in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction Vikas New Delhi & Rutherford, New JerseyFairleigh Dickinson University Press 1971 Drugs and the Other Self: An Anthology of Spiritual Transformations Harper 1971 The New Literatures in English Allied 1985 The Bhagavad Gita Pitamber 1987 Jawaharlal Nehru as a Man of Letters Allied 1990