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Mss Eur F178/87
- Record Id:
- 040-002320992
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002320895
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000450.0x000316
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F178/87
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Album of letters, newspaper cuttings (including Hindi), programmes, reports, circulars, lists of participants &c.;, illustrating the International Student Service Educational Tours of Europe for Indian Women Students organised by Mrs Rina Datta in 1934, 1935 and 1936. The 1934 tour covered Rome, Naples, Northern Italy, Switzerland, Britain (via Mainz, Cologne and Brussels) and France (including the 13th annual conference of the I.S.S. at Bouffemont on 'Brain Worker and Manual Worker'. The photographs include a group with Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia. The cuttings are not in strict chronological order. Included, the music and words of a song 'Armonia' by Martha Carbonari dedicated to 'Giovane India' with the lines:
'Remove the cause of latent discord.
Make India one united people...'
The 1935 material includes newspaper articles by Mrs Kuttan Nair of Kerala, one of which deals with a personal visit to Czechoslovakia. These appeared in the Hindustan Times. There is a letter from Alice Masaryk, the daughter of President Thomas Masaryk. The 1936 tour included Scandinavia and Spain.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002320895
036-002320987
040-002320992 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F178 : Papers of S K Datta, lecturer 1909-14 and Principal 1932-42, Forman Christian College; active in YMCA in India and…
Mss Eur F178/83-88 : S K Datta, lecturer 1909-14 and Principal 1932-42, Forman Christian College: photographs, cuttings and scrap books
Mss Eur F178/87 : Album of letters, newspaper cuttings (including Hindi), programmes, reports, circulars, lists of participants &c.;,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002320895[0010]/036-002320987[0005]/040-002320992
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F178
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Unspecified
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1934
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 1934-1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)