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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/OA30000197/00002
Notes
- Abstract:
- Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh interviewed about military service and Partition. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical history: Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh was born in Lyallpur, Punjab on the 15th April 1919 into an Aulakh family. He was trained at RAF College Cranwell in 1938 and was commissioned as an officer in 1939. He served with the Indian Air Force in the Arakan Campaign (1944) during the Second World War. In 1947, Singh was a Wing Commander, Royal Indian Air Force in Ambala. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the Indian Air Force between August 1964 and July 1969 and was air force commander during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965. In 1966, he became the first Air Chief Marshal of the Indian Air Force. Following retirement from the air force, he served as Indian diplomat in Switzerland, Vatican City and Kenya.
- General Note:
- Interview by Andrew Whitehead, 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: 00:36:44
- General Note:
- Recording no.: Additional 40
- General Note:
- Date of Interview: 18 April 2007
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- Related material: Partial transcript with notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/03
- General Note:
- Publication note: Research for the publication: Andrew Whitehead, 'A Mission in Kashmir' (Viking Penguin, 2007)
- 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
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- VIAF (name authority) : Arjan Singh, 1919-2017 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/56290805
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- VIAF (name authority) : India. Indian Air Force : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/124398329
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 )
OA3/01/18/40 ( CALM Reference number )
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