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Moving from Category:1988 books to Category:1988 non-fiction books using Cat-a-lot

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{{Infobox book
| name = Thy Hand , Great Anarch!
| author = Nirad C. Chaudhuri
| country = England, India
| language = English
| subject = comparative - historical, cultural and sociological analysis of India and Britain
| genre = autobiographical,non fiction
| publisher =
| release_date = 1987
| english_release_date = 1987
| media_type = book
| pages =
| isbn =
| preceded_by = Hinduism: A Religion to Live by (1979)
| followed_by = Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse (1997)
}}
'''''Thy Hand, Great Anarch!''''' is a 1987 [[autobiographical]] sequel to Indian essayist [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]]'s ''[[The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian]]''. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''[[The Dunciad]]'' which runs thus:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/dunciad-book-iv | title=The Dunciad: Book IV, 655-6 | publisher=[[University of Toronto]] | work=Representative Poetry Online | accessdate=June 16, 2012 | author=Editor: D. F. Theall}}</ref>
{{cquote|Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;<br>
And universal Darkness buries All.}}<br>
Written when Chaudhuri was in his 80s, this book provides a perspective to the Indian political scene from the 1920s to [[India's independence]]. The book covers the writer's working life in India, first as a clerk in the Military Accounts Department, then as an editor, writer and publicist. While as a clerk, he came across [[Matthew Arnold|Arnold]]'s ''[[The Scholar Gipsy|Scholar Gypsy]]'' which inspired him to leave his secure government job and become a writer, which he thought was his calling. Although always a severe critic of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], Chaudhuri shows a remarkable respect for the Mahatma when the latter led the masses in the [[Satyagraha|Civil Disobedience Movement]].

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[[Category:1988 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Gandhism]]
[[Category:Indian autobiographies]]

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