Background
Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present day Pakistan, in 1927.
Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present day Pakistan, in 1927.
He continued his education as a British Council Scholar at University of Nottingham (1959-1961) and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in English in 1961.
He is widely considered as 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 Mahatama Gandhi as a complex character with human failings. After having his school education locally, he did his master"s in English at University of Delhi in 1948.
During his education, he worked as 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 of Princeton University, New Jersey and served as various universities in the United States, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Canada and North of Korea as visiting lecturer. He was also a fellow at Cambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for the Indian Express, writing a column, Talking about from 1966 to 1973.
Chaman Nahal"s writings are known to talk about India without any touch of exoticism.
Azadi, his novel on the partition of India, is widely considered to be the best of the Indian-English novels written about the traumatic partition which accompanied Indian Independence in 1947 (Quoted from "’Train to Pakistan – Azadi: Vice-versa Journey"’ by Doctor Mangalkumar R ). An autobiographical book, Silent Life, was originally written in English and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian and Sinhalese. on Partition, chapters in books, and dissertations on Chaman Nahal Research papers or journal articles on Chaman Nahal.
