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Tape recording of interview, given 1988, by Bernard Wilfred Budd (b 1912), on his career in the Indian Civil Service in Bombay 1935-38, Sind 1938-47, and in the Pakistan Administration Service 1947-51. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Brig Gordon Hutchinson Osmaston (b 1898), Royal Engineers 1916-21, Survey of India 1921-48, on his work for the Survey of India and impressions of life in India.
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Father William Kempson Lumley Webb, S J (b 1921), on his early life in India as the son of a domiciled British tea estate manager in the Duars, Jalpaiguri district, Bengal, and on his education at the Jesuit College of St Joseph's Darjeeling.
Tape recording, made 1975, by Mary Eliott Hunter, wife of Charles Frederick Hunter (1887-1973), Indian Service of Engineers 1909-40, reading from letters, dated 1922-29, from herself and her parents describing their impressions of India; also recollections by her daughter Frances Eliott Hunter (b...
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Roy Edward King Nissen (b 1905), on his life and career in India as a member of the European domiciled community and as an Accounts Officer in the Indian Railways 1924-60.
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Francis Calder (`Henry') Ford Robertson (b 1901), on his life and work as a member of the Indian Forest Service, United Provinces 1924-47.
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by (Nora) Aline de Courcy Ford Robertson (`nee' Ireland) (b 1914), of her recollections of childhood in India 1914-20, and of her life as a young woman in India from 1933 and as the wife of Edward Frederic Gilbert Chapman (b 1895), Indian Police, United Pr...
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Geraldine Blanche Wright (1932-97), describing her childhood and adolescence in Burma 1932-42, India 1942-46, and Burma again 1946-48, with an account of a return visit to Burma in 1977.
Tape recordings of interviews, conducted Nov 1987-Jan 1988, by Gillian Wright on behalf of Trevor Royle for his book `The Last Days of the Raj' (London 1989), in which fourteen Indians discuss their personal recollections of British rule including the Quit India movement, independence, and the Br...