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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
06 Feb 1998
British Voices from South Asia - Exhibition
Louisiana State University, USA
Self-description:
"[An online reproduction of] an exhibition which was held in Hill
Memorial Library at Louisiana State University, Apr 8 to Aug 6,
1996. The materials presented here focus on British India as a
colonial subculture and on some of the cultural implications of
the British-Indian connection. [...] The exhibition marks the
acquisition by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at
LSU of a series of taped interviews--conducted by Professors
Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan of the LSU English
Department--with British people who lived and worked in India
before Independence in 1947. "
Site contents:
(1) The Passage to India;
(2) 'Running Your Little Empire';
(3) Life in the Bungalows;
(4) Imperial Diversions: The Club, the Hills, the Field;
(5) Never the Twain: Indo-British Relations (interviews);
(6) 'No More India to Go to': Departure and Connections (under
construction)
[A wealth of carefully annotated postcards, watercolours, engravings,
photographs and posters - ed.]
URL http://indigo.lib.lsu.edu/special/india/hmpg.htm
Link submitted by: Elaine B. Smyth (notebs@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu) and Raymond Lum (rlum@fas.harvard.edu)
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