This research paper attempts to delineate and outline the Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian as a factual revelation of man, milieu & settings. Chaudhuri is a man of ingenious brilliance and has the benefit of a prominent and impregnable consign in Indo -Anglian literature besides. Chaudhuri’s autobiography is the most distinguished and the most vituperated manuscript. Chaudhuri determinedly depended on an egotistical peak of view which amounts to a persistent self - justification. This is one of the most advantageous instances of the most substantial, divergent discursive exertion to be engendered by esteem and distaste of Indian -British interface and edge. His autobiography further articulates in a diplomatic approach the distinctive variance endured by a middle -class Indian thinker near the commencement time of the twentieth century , for the reason that of his European susceptibility attained in the itinerary of English edification and Western influence. His intention is to tell the a necdote of the struggle of a civilization with hostile scenery and settings in which the destiny of British ruling in India became involuntarily occupied. Definitely , his autobiography is more of a nationwide than personal and private recitation as it makes public supremacy to the education larger than the originator in addition to this, it is more of an executive anthology than life story . This is less an exposure of his livelihood and personality and narrowly taps the theme and issues of self - introspection. Chaudhuri’s inferences as an autobiographer come Page 70  Labyrinth : ISSN 0976-0814 (Vol.7 - No.3, July 2016) from the immensity of his writings, his intelligence, his inimitability , his debatable, persistently incompatible sociological hypothesis and verification interpretation, and better than that, the self-respect and respectability of the assortment of English he writes