Tape recording of interview, given 1991, by Elizabeth Kathleen De Warrenne Waller (b 1928), daughter of Lt-Col Sir Walter Fendall Campbell (1894-1973), Indian Political Service 1921-47, on her life in India as a child and young woman.
Tape recording of interview, given 1991, by Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Prior Palmer (nee Hope) (b 1920), daughter of Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India 1936-43, on tiger shooting expeditions with Jim Corbett.
Roberts Oral History Project: tape recorded interviews with over 150 former Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) personnel, Sri Lankan politicians and notables active in Ceylon 1930s-1960s, made 1965-69, by Michael Roberts, ex-Rhodes Scholar and historian of Ceylon. [Transcripts of some interviews available].
Oral archive tapes and associated papers on `Children of the Raj' compiled by Elizabeth D Cornish over the period 1980-84; with papers concerning women in India. Some of the tapes also contain material on women in India.
`Tessitori in Rajasthan. Diario 1914-1919': video based on the diary by the Italian oriental scholar Luigi Pio Tessitori of his visit to India 1914-19, made by the Centro Linguistico e Audiovisivi of the University of Udine (1994).
Tape recording of interview, given 1995, by Margaret June Ramsay-Brown (b 1921) on her childhood and education in India as a daughter of an Indian Civil Service officer; and her life as an adult married to an army officer, and later as a lone European woman working among Indians in an office afte...
'The Lord, the Sword and the Guru': tape recording of BBC Radio 4 programme by (William) Mark Tully (b 1935), broadcaster, produced by Nigel Acheson and Rani Singh, on the whereabouts of the Sikh relics, in particular swords belonging to Guru Govind Singh, taken by Lord Dalhousie and the British ...
Transcripts of tape recordings: see equivalent reference in Mss Eur R sequence for description. Transcripts are available for all recordings up to Mss Eur R 133; thereafter only for some interviews.
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Transcripts of tape recordings: see equivalent reference in Mss Eur R sequence for description. Transcripts are available for all recordings up to Mss Eur R 133; thereafter only for some interviews.
Two papers by Col Mohammad Sharif Khan (b 1916), Indian Army 1937, relating to his experiences as a Lieutenant in the Tochi Scouts, one on a renegade scout Nazar Gul, and one on the noted Khassadar Darim Khan; also notes relating to his tape recorded memoirs (Mss Eur R 179).
`Life in the Viceroy's House': text and prints for talk by Lt- Cdr Patrick Henry James Southby, Royal Navy, ADC to the Viceroy 1938-40, Comptroller of Viceroy's Household 1938; video of Lt-Cdr Southby's rehearsal for talk also available (Mss Eur R 212).