Interview with Abdul Qadir Sehrai [sound recording]

North-West Frontier Province; visited Soviet Union in 1920s meeting Lenin, Bukharin and others and travelling to Pamirs; arrested by British on return; comments on Peshawar disturbances of 1930 and on Red Shirt movement.


Date(s) of creation: October 1975-February 1976
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Sehrai; Abdul Qadir (fl 1920-1976); communist
Other authors: Allen; Charles (b 1940); historian and interviewer

Summary: North-West Frontier Province; visited Soviet Union in 1920s meeting Lenin, Bukharin and others and travelling to Pamirs; arrested by British on return; comments on Peshawar disturbances of 1930 and on Red Shirt movement.
Main author: Sehrai; Abdul Qadir (fl 1920-1976); communist
Other authors: Allen; Charles (b 1940); historian and interviewer
Admin history: Abdul Qadir Sehrai visited revolutionary Russia in 1920 and met with leading Bolsheviks V. I. Lenin and N. Bukharin. Sehrai was arrested by the British colonial authorities in India upon his return.
Access status: Closed
Access conditions: Sound recording currently unavailable to consult at SOAS Library. Transcript is available to consult. Researchers can access a copy of the sound recording at the British Library Listening & Viewing Service [BL reference:C5/117]. For more details see www.bl.uk/listening or contact listening@bl.uk / 020 7412 7418.
User restrictions: Private study only. For publication or broadcast please refer to Archivist
Language: English
Copies: Copy of interview available at British Library Listening & Viewing Service [reference: C5/117].
Related material: Transcript available at SOAS Library [OA2, British in India Oral Archive, Transcripts, Box 5]
Format: Archive