Interviews about the Partition of India [transcripts]

Transcripts, partial transcripts and summaries of 146 oral history interviews relating to the Partition of India, recorded and transcribed by Andrew Whitehead. The interviews were conducted by Whitehead (and others) in Pakistan and Bangladesh between 1995 and 1998 for the BBC World Service radio ser...

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Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, Transcripts & Articles, Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c 1995- c 1998
Level: File
Format: Archive           
Main author: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian

Order number: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, Transcripts & Articles, Box 3
Summary: Transcripts, partial transcripts and summaries of 146 oral history interviews relating to the Partition of India, recorded and transcribed by Andrew Whitehead. The interviews were conducted by Whitehead (and others) in Pakistan and Bangladesh between 1995 and 1998 for the BBC World Service radio series 'India: A People Partitioned' (1997). Transcripts include working notes on the interviews by Whitehead. The file also includes an introduction to the interviews and the radio series by Whitehead.
Main author: Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian
Extent: 1 file
Note: "These notes were assembled not as an authoritative account of the interviews, but as a working tool as I put together the radio series. They were often written in some haste, and using some non-standard abbreviations. The transcripts should be used as an indication of the contents of the tapes and note as a definitive record", Andrew Whitehead, 1998.
Acquisition: Deposited by Andrew Whitehead at SOAS Library in 1998
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Andrew Whitehead
User restrictions: Transcripts are 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
Related material: Sound recordings of the oral history interviews are available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/01/01-OA3/01/16.
Format: Archive