Interview with Ashok Mitra [sound recording]

Ashok Mitra interviewed about East Bengal; student activism in Dhaka University during Partition; Communist Party of India's policy towards Partition; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; politics of language in East Pakistan [Bangladesh].

Archive & Special Collections OA3/01/03/11 Open

Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: 16 October 1996
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Ashok Mitra (fl 1947-2014); Indian Marxist economist and politican
Other authors: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/oa3/all

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title Interview with Ashok Mitra [sound recording]
scb_date_creation 16 October 1996
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scb_extent 00:34:26
author Ashok Mitra (fl 1947-2014); Indian Marxist economist and politican
author_facet Ashok Mitra (fl 1947-2014); Indian Marxist economist and politican
Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
authorStr Ashok Mitra (fl 1947-2014); Indian Marxist economist and politican
author_letter Ashok Mitra (fl 1947-2014); Indian Marxist economist and politican
author2 Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
author2Str Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
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scb_admin_history Dr Ashok Mitra was born in East Bengal into a Hindu family. He was a student at University of Dacca during 1947 and moved to India following Partition. He gained a Masters degree from the Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Ashol Mitra gained a PhD in economics in 1953 from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, University of Rotterdam. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Ashok Mitra was a member of staff at the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok, Thailand and the Economic Development Institute in Washington, DC, United States. He later became Professors of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He was the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, and then Chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission of the Government of India. He was Finance Minister of West Bengal from 1977-87. In the mid-1990s he became a member of Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He is close to the Communist Party (Marxist).
scb_custodial_history Interview by Andrew Whitehead in Parliamentary annexe, Delhi, India
description Ashok Mitra interviewed about East Bengal; student activism in Dhaka University during Partition; Communist Party of India's policy towards Partition; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; politics of language in East Pakistan [Bangladesh].
scb_access_status Open
scb_conditions_gov_access MP3 audio file can be accessed on DVD-R in Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. Users must bring their own headphones and computer to consult material.
scb_copyright Copyright held by Andrew Whitehead
scb_use_restrictions The recording is available for consultation without restriction, and short extracts (up to 200 words) can be published with an appropriate acknowledgement. Any publication of longer extracts or use of interviews for broadcast requires the prior written permission of Andrew Whitehead.
language English
language_search English
scb_originals MP3 audio datafile digitised from original recording on cassette tape. Original: OA3 Tape 18, Side A
scb_copies Digital version of sound recording is available via SOAS Digital Collections.
scb_related_material Partial transcript and notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/01
scb_publications Research for broadcast of the BBC World Service radio series 'India: A People Partitioned' (1997)
scb_url https://digital.soas.ac.uk/oa3/all
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