| Order number: |
OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
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| Summary: |
Mahmooda Ahmed Ali Shah & Sajida Malik interviewed about Kashmir in 1947; the Communist Party of India; B. P. L. Bedi and Freda Bedi; Quit Kashmir; women's self-defence corps; Skeikh Abdullah; Jammu and Kashmir National Conference; situation of women in Kashmir; N. N. Raina.
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| Main author: |
Shah; Mahmooda Ahmed Ali (b 1919); teacher and women's self-defence corps militia member |
| Other authors: |
Ahmed; Sajida Zameer (b c 1929); née Malik, women's self-defence corps militia member, Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian |
| Extent: |
00:54:46
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| Admin history: |
Mahmooda Ahmed Ali Shah was born in 1919. She became the head of the Government Women's College in Srinagar. Shah had been a Communist Party of India sympathiser and had been active in Congress Party both early and later in life. She was a supporter of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference in the 1940s and member of women's self-defence corps militia in Kashmir in 1947. Her sister-in-law was Sajida Zameer Ahmed. |
| Custodial history: |
Interview by Andrew Whitehead, Srinagar, Kashmir |
| Access status: |
Open
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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)
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| Format: |
Archive
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