Interview with Monica Jackson [sound recording]

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...

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Archive & Special Collections OA4/08 Closed

Order number: OA4, Memories of the British in India, Sound Cassettes, Box 1 [CLOSED]
Date(s) of creation: 14 August 1984
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist
Other authors: Macdonald; Margaret (fl 1984); interviewer

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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with OA4, Memories of the British in India, Sound Cassettes, Box 1 [CLOSED]
callnumber OA4/08
callnumber_txt OA4/08
callnumber-sort OA4/08
prefix_number 08
scb_previous_numbers OA2/65/1-3
title Interview with Monica Jackson [sound recording]
scb_date_creation 14 August 1984
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 2 sound casettes
author Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist
author_facet Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist
Macdonald; Margaret (fl 1984); interviewer
authorStr Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist
author_letter Jackson; Monica (b 1920); anthropologist
author2 Macdonald; Margaret (fl 1984); interviewer
author2Str Macdonald; Margaret (fl 1984); interviewer
format Archive
scb_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.
description 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.
scb_access_status Closed
scb_conditions_gov_access 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.
scb_copyright Copyright held by British Library
scb_use_restrictions Private study only. For publication or broadcast please refer to Archivist
language English
language_search English
scb_originals Original sound recording of interview available at British Library Listening & Viewing Service [Reference: C63/131-135]
hierarchy_top_id_raw OA4
hierarchy_sequence OA4.0008

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