British Voices from South Asia
Information
Size: 37 interviews on 107 recordings
Time period covered: 1890s-late 1940s
Dates of interviews: 1978-1980
Principal Interviewers: Frank de Caro, Rosan Jordan
Finding Aids: Indexes
Audio Availability: MP3
Processing Status: All interviews are cataloged
Access Restrictions: Copyright retained by interviewees and/or their heirs
Note: Copyright and property rights are assigned jointly to Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge and Louisiana State University and A & M College Libraries and its successor agencies.
Description: Folklorists de Caro and Jordan interviewed Britons who lived and worked in pre-independence India as colonial administrators, civil servants, missionaries, soldiers, forestry officials, and engineers. Many interviews focus on daily life in India and the contact of cultures and cultural identity.
To learn more about the lives of this collection's interviewees, and to read transcribed interview excerpts, visit the LSU Libraries Special Collections' online exhibit British Voices from South Asia.
Interview Abstracts
Tape 838: Margery Hall and Kate Garrod
Tape 839: Margery Hall and Kate Garrod; Major General William Odling
Tape 840: Margery Hall and Kate Garrod
Tape 841: Major General William Odling
Tape 843: Brigadier Richard Gardiner and Mrs. Catherine Gardiner; Fergus Munro Innes
Tape 844: Fergus Munro Innes; C.J. Pelly
Tape 845: Fergus Munro Innes; C.J. Pelly; H.P. and Margery Hall
Tape 847: H.P. and Margery Hall
Tape 848: H.P. and Margery Hall
Tape 849: H.P. and Margery Hall; John Shattock
Tape 850: Colonel W.A. Salmon and Mrs. Jean Salmon
Tape 852: Brigadier Richard Gardiner and Mrs. Catherine Gardiner
Tape 854: Sir Alec Ogilvie; Colonel and Mrs. C.A.K. Innes-Wilson
Tape 855: Colonel and Mrs. C.A.K. Innes-Wilson
Tape 856: Colonel and Mrs. C.A.K. Innes-Wilson; John Shattock
Tape 857: John Shattock; Major General R.C.A. Edge and Mrs. Patricia Edge
Tape 858: John Shattock; Major General R.C.A. Edge and Mrs. Patricia Edge
Tape 859: Major General R.C.A. Edge, Mrs. Patricia Edge, Reverend John Debrett, Mrs. Diana Debrett
Tape 860: Major General R.C.A. Edge, Mrs. Patricia Edge, Reverend John Debrett, Mrs. Diana Debrett
Tape 862: Major General R.C.A. Edge and Mrs. Patricia Edge; G.N. Jackson
Tape 863: G.N. Jackson; Philip Mason
Tape 865: Philip Mason; Sir George and Lady Abell; Mr. John Stubbs and Mrs. Kay Stubbs
Tape 866: Sir George and Lady Abell; Mr. John Stubbs and Mrs. Kay Stubbs
Tape 867: Mr. John Stubbs and Mrs. Kay Stubbs; Robin Adair
Tape 868: Mr. John Stubbs and Mrs. Kay Stubbs; Robin Adair
Tape 869: Robin Adair; Mr. Stephen Hatch-Barnwell and Mrs. Muriel Hatch-Barnwell
Tape 870: Robin Adair; Mr. Stephen Hatch-Barnwell and Mrs. Muriel Hatch-Barnwell
Tape 871: Mr. Stephen Hatch-Barnwell and Mrs. Muriel Hatch-Barnwell; Ivan Ellis Jones
Tape 873: Ivan Ellis Jones; Mr. Douglas C. Fairbairn and Mrs. Agnes Fairbairn
Tape 875: Major Christopher York; Sir Charles Dalton and Lady Daphne Dalton
Tape 876: Major Christopher York; Sir Charles Dalton and Lady Daphne Dalton
Tape 881: Brigadier Frank McCallum and Mrs. Sybilla McCallum; Audrey Spence
Tape 882: Brigadier Frank McCallum and Mrs. Sybilla McCallum; Audrey Spence; Edith Dixon
Tape 883: Edith Dixon; Right Reverend Lesslie Newbigin; Arthur Barlow
Tape 884: Right Reverend Lesslie Newbigin; Arthur Barlow
Tape 885: Arthur Barlow; Colonel and Mrs. John R. Hainsworth
Tape 886: Arthur Barlow; Colonel and Mrs. John R. Hainsworth
Tape 887: Brigadier Richard Gardiner and Mrs. Catherine Gardiner; Doris G. Harlow
Tape 888: Doris G. Harlow; Kate Smith-Pearse
Tape 889: Doris G. Harlow; Kate Smith-Pearse; Keith Roy
Tape 891: Lieutenant Colonel John Masters
Tape 892: Lieutenant Colonel John Masters
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