| Order number: |
OA4, Memories of the British in India, Sound Cassettes, Box 1 [CLOSED]
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| Summary: |
Discusses her life in South India 1920-55, as the daughter of a coffee planter in Coimbatore and the wife of an army officer, and her subsequent visits in the 1970s.
Summary: Anthropologist Monica Jackson reminisces about her childhood on her parents' coffee plantation (Honometi?) in the region of Mysore and the Nilgiri Hills (now in Karnataka State), and talks about the changes she found there on her return on working visits in the 1970's. Summary of interview:- Her family's early connections with India and acquisition of their estate; her childhood, education abroad, return to India and marriage at the beginning of World War 2; feelings about Indian politics; her family's visits to Mysore; deaths of her grandparents; wildlife; organisation and administration of her family's and other estates; her return to India after an interval of 20 years and her feelings for it; her family's contacts with other Europeans during her childhood; her life in India during World War 2; visits to the annual dasra (?) festivities in Mysore, at that time a prinicipality; social intercourse with Indians; a typical day on the estate for her and her sisters and the work done there; the present day conditions of the estate workers and the impoverishment of the environment around the estate; collecting fuel and visiting the jungle in her childhood days; a rabies epidemic, health and hygiene on the estate; her views on the independence of India and its effects on her family, and of British rule in India.
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| Main author: |
Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist |
| Other authors: |
Macdonald; Margaret (fl 1984); interviewer |
| Previous numbers: |
OA2/65/1-3
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| Extent: |
2 sound casettes
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| Custodial history: |
Recorded as part of the ’Memories of the British in India’ project by India Office Library & Records [subsequently the Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library]. This recording was previously held at SOAS Library as part of the 'British in India Oral Archive Project' collection [Reference OA2], removed from this collection in August 2014 to reflect the recording’s alternative provenance as part of the ‘Memories of the British in India’ project. |
| Access status: |
Closed
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| Access conditions: |
Sound recording currently unavailable at SOAS Library due to preservation reasons. Researchers can access a copy of this audio recording at the British Library Listening & Viewing Service. For more details see www.bl.uk/listening or contact listening@bl.uk / 020 7412 7418.
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| Copyright: |
Copyright held by British Library |
| User restrictions: |
Private study only. For publication or broadcast please refer to Archivist |
| Language: |
English
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| Originals: |
Original sound recording of interview available at British Library Listening & Viewing Service [Reference: C63/131-135]
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| Format: |
Archive
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