Interview with Jack Jacob [sound recording]
Jack Jacob interviewed about the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971.
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OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
11 December 1996 |
| Level: |
Item |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Jacob; Jacob-Farj-Rafael (b 1923); Indian Army officer and politican, known as Jack or J.F.R. |
| Other authors: | Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian |
| URL: |
https://digital.soas.ac.uk/oa3/all |
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SOAS Archive |
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OA3.01.05.01 |
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archive |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4 |
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OA3/01/05/01 |
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OA3/01/05/01 |
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OA3/01/05/01 |
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01 |
| title |
Interview with Jack Jacob [sound recording] |
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11 December 1996 |
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Item |
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8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item |
| scb_extent |
00:28:24 |
| author |
Jacob; Jacob-Farj-Rafael (b 1923); Indian Army officer and politican, known as Jack or J.F.R. |
| author_facet |
Jacob; Jacob-Farj-Rafael (b 1923); Indian Army officer and politican, known as Jack or J.F.R. Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian |
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Jacob; Jacob-Farj-Rafael (b 1923); Indian Army officer and politican, known as Jack or J.F.R. |
| author_letter |
Jacob; Jacob-Farj-Rafael (b 1923); Indian Army officer and politican, known as Jack or J.F.R. |
| author2 |
Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian |
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Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian |
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Archive |
| scb_admin_history |
Jack Jacob was born in 1923 into a Calcutta Baghdadi Jewish family. He attended Victoria School in Kurseong. He joined the British Indian Army in 1942 and served in Iraq, North Africa and Burma. Following Partition he served in the Indian Army commanded an infantry division during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was Chief of Staff of the Indian Army's Eastern Command that defeated the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and drafted the Pakistani surrender document. He retired from the military in 1978. In the late 1990s he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became a member of its national executive. Jacob later served as the Governor of the states of Goa and Punjab. |
| scb_custodial_history |
Interview by Andrew Whitehead in Delhi, India |
| description |
Jack Jacob interviewed about the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971. |
| 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 22, 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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OA3 |
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OA3.0001.0005.0001 |