Interview with Inder Cheema [sound recording]

Inder Cheema interviewed about childhood memories of Baramulla. Recording also includes a conversation between Cheema and his mother Leela Thompson.


Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: 13 October 2003
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Cheema; Inder (b c 1937); of Kashmir
Other authors: Thompson; Leela (b 1914); née Pasricha, 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: Inder Cheema interviewed about childhood memories of Baramulla. Recording also includes a conversation between Cheema and his mother Leela Thompson.
Main author: Cheema; Inder (b c 1937); of Kashmir
Other authors: Thompson; Leela (b 1914); née Pasricha, Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
Extent: 00:19:53
Admin history: Inder Cheema was born in Srinagar. In 1947, very shortly before tribesmen attacked Baramulla, Kashmir, he was evacuated to Srinagar (along with his aunt Pam and her two young children). His mother, Leela Thompson, was then already in Srinagar. His father, a Sikh, had died a few years earlier.
Custodial history: Interview by Andrew Whitehead at Inder Cheema's home, Southport Island, Maine, USA
Access status: Open
Access conditions: MP3 audio file can be accessed on CD-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
Copies: Digital version of sound recording is available via SOAS Digital Collections.
Related material: Transcript with notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/03
Publications: Research for broadcast of the BBC Radio 4 programme 'An Incident in Kashmir' (2003); and Andrew Whitehead, 'A Mission in Kashmir' (Viking Penguin, 2007)
Format: Archive