Indian Autobiographies

Indian Autobiographies critically examines, the better known Indian Autobiographies, with some discussion about its future trends. The occasion also taken to discuss in general, the mystique of autobiographical memory. For truth in autobiography, it is mainly centered on Mahatma Gandhi’s “My Experiments with Truth” and a comparison of the same with the autobiography of another famous humanitarian Albert Schweitzer. Then it is the turn of autobiography of politicians. Then there is a works of members in the Civil Service. Thereafter the book discusses the memoirs of a few Military Men and then two famous Journalist. Women autobiographers are discussed in two chapters, one a general one and the other relating to controversial Poets Kamala Das and Amrita Pritam. Thereafter the book discusses the autobiographies of some holy man. The chapter is devoted to the accounts of disabled people and disadvantaged ones. There is a general discussion on sex in Indian autobiography and of childhood accounts. The book end with a discussion of published diaries and future trend in Indian autobiography.