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Chaman Nahal commonly known as C Nahal, andChaman Nahal Azadi, was an Indian born 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.^[1] He is also known for his depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as a complex character with human failings.^{[citation needed]}

Chaman Nahal was born inSialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present dayPakistan, in 1927. After having done his school education locally, he did his master's in English atUniversity of Delhi in 1948. He continued his education as a British Council Scholar atUniversity 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 joinedRajasthan University, Jaipur asreader in English. The next year, he moved to New Delhi as professor of English at the University of New Delhi.He was aFulbright fellow atPrinceton University,New Jersey and served as a visiting professor at various universities in the United States,Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Canada andNorth Korea. He was also a fellow atCambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for theIndian Express, writing a column talking about books from 1966 to 1973. He died on 29 November 2013 in New Delhi, India.^{[citation needed]}

Novels

Short story collection

Uncollected short stories

Others

Bibliography

In The New Literatures in English, 1985

Critical Studies on Chaman Nahal

Memoir

Children's novels

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 Dr. Mangalkumar R. Patil). An autobiographical book,Silent Life, was originally written in English and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian and Sinhalese.^{[citation needed]}

• 1927 births
• Indian male novelists
• Indian male short story writers
• English-language writers from India
• Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
• 2013 deaths
• 20th-century Indian novelists
• 20th-century Indian short story writers
• People from Sialkot District
• 20th-century Indian male writers

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