Interview with Betty Keyes [sound recording]
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Title:
Interview with Betty Keyes [sound recording]
Series Title:
India: A People Partitioned Oral Archive
Creator:
Keyes; Betty (b 1930); telephonist
Whitehead; Andrew (fl 1974-2014); journalist and historian ( contributor )
Keyes, Betty, 1930 ( contributor )
Whitehead, Andrew (Journalist) ( contributor )
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Copyright Date:
© 2018 Andrew Whitehead and the interviewee(s). All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
Language:
English
Measurements:
00:25:25

Notes

Abstract:
Betty Keyes interviewed about her life and her personal memories of Partition. ( en )
General Note:
Biographical history: Betty Keyes was born in 1930 in Tarkisha into an Anglo-Indian family. Her father was born in England and worked for the railway in West Bengal. Her mother was born in India of Portuguese heritage. Keyes was educated at Calcutta Girls High School worked in the telephone exchange, first as an operator and later as a supervisor. She retired in 1985. Whitehead writes: "Betty Keyes, born 1930, was - when I met her - living alone just off Chowringhee Road in Calcutta. I was alerted to her story by an article about her written by Rinku Datta and published in Himal magazine. There are discrepancies between what she told Rinku and recited to me - but the basic story of a young Anglo-Indian woman in Calcutta at Partition, and her account of Anglo-Indian attitudes towards independence, is fairly consistent."
General Note:
Interview by Andrew Whitehead in Kolkata, 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
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Duration: Duration: 00:25:25
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Recording no.: Additional 44
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Date of Interview: 1st June 2007
General Note:
Related material: Partial transcript with notes compiled by Andrew Whitehead available at SOAS Library. Reference: OA3/02/03
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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

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 )
OA3/01/18/44 ( CALM Reference number )