Interview with Sailen Chatterjee [sound recording]

Sailen Chatterjee interviewed about Mahatma Gandhi; Noakhah; Calcutta riots; Gandhi's assassination


Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: 25 January 1997
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Chatterjee; Sailen (c 1923-2001); Indian journalist
Other authors: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/oa3/all

Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Summary: Sailen Chatterjee interviewed about Mahatma Gandhi; Noakhah; Calcutta riots; Gandhi's assassination
Main author: Chatterjee; Sailen (c 1923-2001); Indian journalist
Other authors: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
Extent: 00:52:20
Admin history: Sailen Chatterjee was a Bengali United Press of India correspondent who accompanied Mahatma Gandhi regularly in mid-1940s, and was an eye-witness to Gandhi's assassination; United Press of India correspondent deputed to cover Gandhi from 1945 to his death; eye-witness to Gandhi's assassination in Delhi on 30 Jan 1948.
Custodial history: Interview by Andrew Whitehead in Delhi, India
Access status: Open
Access conditions: 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.
Copyright: Copyright held by Andrew Whitehead
User 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
Originals: MP3 audio datafile digitised from original recording on cassette tape. Original: OA3 Tape 32, Side A + B
Copies: Digital version of sound recording is available via SOAS Digital Collections.
Related material: Partial transcript and notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/01
Publications: Research for broadcast of the BBC World Service radio series 'India: A People Partitioned' (1997)
Format: Archive