Oral Archive: British in India Oral Archive Project

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 OA2
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Oral Archive: British in India Oral Archive Project
Date(s)	: 1975-1987
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 11 boxes (6 boxes of sound recordings, 5 boxes of transcripts)
Name of creator(s)	: School of Oriental and African Studies | British in India Oral Archive Committee

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The British in India Oral Archive Project, under the British in India Oral Archive Committee at the School of Oriental and African Studies, continued the work of recording the experiences of inhabitants of India begun for the BBC Radio 4 series 'Plain Tales from the Raj' (1974). The bulk of the interviews were carried out in 1975-1976, with a few additional interviews in 1984 and 1987.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Cassette copies and transcripts of sound recordings of over 80 interviews with British and indigenous inhabitants of India, covering the pre- and post-Independence periods, made for the British in India Oral Archive Project, 1975-1976, 1984, 1987.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Alphabetical by name of interviewee.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist arranged by alphabetically by name of interviewee.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the British in India Oral Archive Committee.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds sound recordings from the two radio series 'Plain Tales from the Raj', on British India (Ref: OA1), and 'India: A People Partitioned' (Ref: OA3).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2002