Interview with Zakia Hamid Jalal [sound recording]

Zakia Hamid Jalal interviewed about Bombay [Mumbai] during Partition and her memories of the writer Manto during this period; death of Manto.


Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: April 1997
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Zakia Hamid Jalal (b c 1929); sister-in-law of Saadat Hassan Manto
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: Zakia Hamid Jalal interviewed about Bombay [Mumbai] during Partition and her memories of the writer Manto during this period; death of Manto.
Main author: Zakia Hamid Jalal (b c 1929); sister-in-law of Saadat Hassan Manto
Other authors: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
Extent: 00:20:12
Admin history: Zakia Hamid Jalal was sister-in-law of the Urdu short-story writer Saadat Hassan Manto (known as Manto). She was 18 and in Bombay [Mumbai] during Partition. She lived with Manto during Partition and when the family later moved to Lahore. Her daugter is the historian Ayesha Jalal.
Custodial history: Interview by Andrew Whitehead
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 62, Side 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