Published in 1987, when Nirad Chaudhuri was nearly 90, Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a sequel to his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian and covers aspects of the next 31 years of his life, intertwined with social and political aspects of his nation’s life. Its title, which is from a couplet in Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, suggests his singularly pessimistic outlook, which is rooted in his deeply conservative political ideology, for he is highly class-conscious, lauds empires, hates masses and democracy, and justifies caste unequivocally. The import of this book vis-à-vis the diasporic writings from India is perhaps expressible through a mechanical metaphor: two installments of Chaudhuri’s autobiography are conduits that led to and sustained his passage to England.