Interview with Pran Nath Jalali (2) [sound recording]

Pran Nath Jalali interviewed about the role in Kashmir of Communist Party of India; nationalist movement in Kashmir; jail on Independence Day; militia; and identifying militia members in pamphlet photograph.


Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
Date(s) of creation: 11 April 2007
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Jalali; Pran Nath (b c 1929); journalist and communist
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: Pran Nath Jalali interviewed about the role in Kashmir of Communist Party of India; nationalist movement in Kashmir; jail on Independence Day; militia; and identifying militia members in pamphlet photograph.
Main author: Jalali; Pran Nath (b c 1929); journalist and communist
Other authors: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
Extent: 00:35:23
Admin history: Pran Nath Jalali was born into a Kashmiri speaking Pandit family in Kashmir. He was a freedom fighter and an activist with the Communist Party of India from 1941-1949. He was a political officer in the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference-aligned militia. Following Partition, Jalali lived in Czechoslovakia, returning to India in the mid-1950s. He worked as a journalist, most notably for the Press Trust of India in Srinagar. Jalali left Srinagar following attempt on his life in 1983.
Custodial history: Interview by Andrew Whitehead, Delhi, India
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 the publication: Andrew Whitehead, 'A Mission in Kashmir' (Viking Penguin, 2007)
Format: Archive