|
|
- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/OA30000021/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Ashok Mitra interviewed about East Bengal; student activism in Dhaka University during Partition; Communist Party of India's policy towards Partition; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; politics of language in East Pakistan [Bangladesh]. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical history: Dr Ashok Mitra was born in East Bengal into a Hindu family. He was a student at University of Dacca during 1947 and moved to India following Partition. He gained a Masters degree from the Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Ashol Mitra gained a PhD in economics in 1953 from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, University of Rotterdam. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Ashok Mitra was a member of staff at the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok, Thailand and the Economic Development Institute in Washington, DC, United States. He later became Professors of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He was the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, and then Chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission of the Government of India. He was Finance Minister of West Bengal from 1977-87. In the mid-1990s he became a member of Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He is close to the Communist Party (Marxist).
- General Note:
- Interview by Andrew Whitehead in Parliamentary annexe, Delhi, India
- General Note:
- Conditions governing reproduction: The recording is available for consultation without restriction, and short extracts (up to 50 words) can be published with an appropriate acknowledgement. Any publication of longer extracts or use of interviews for broadcast requires the prior written permission of Andrew Whitehead.
- General Note:
- Duration: Duration: 00:34:26
- General Note:
- Recording no.: 21
- General Note:
- Date of Interview: 16 October 1996
- General Note:
- Audio datafile digitised from original recording on cassette tape. Original: OA3 Tape 18, Side A
- General Note:
- Related material: Partial transcript and notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/01
- General Note:
- Publication note: Research for broadcast of the BBC World Service radio series 'India: A People Partitioned' (1997)
- General Note:
- Order with this reference: OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Whitehead, Andrew (Journalist) : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/303972108
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Mitra, Ashok, 1928-2018 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/29567774
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : University of Dhaka : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/132602463
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : University of Dacca : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/143008870
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- OA3, India: A People Partitioned, DVDs & CDs, Box 4 ( Order with reference )
OA3/01/03/11 ( CALM Reference number )
|
|
