Sound Clips
Please click on the links below to listen to short sound clips from contributors to the project who were there at the time of Partition. A full version of each of these interviews can be heard at the Record Office :
- Mr Bhatti, Sikh, village life
- Mrs Bowry, village life
- Mr Ramaiya, Hindu, community relations
- Mr Sandhu, Sikh, community relations
- Mrs Thiari, Sikh, community relations
- Mr Muneer, Muslim, village life
- Mr Sandhu, Sikh, community tensions
- Mr Siddiqui, Muslim, tension in Bombay (Mumbai)
- Mr Sandhu, Sikh, discrimination
- Mrs Long, European, ancestry
- Mrs Horsfall, European, home life
- Mr Ramaiya, Hindu, Indian movement
- Mr Attwal, Sikh, Partition
- Mr Ramaiya, Hindu, Indian civil service
- Mr Ball, European, rumours of violence
- Mrs Saini, Sikh, rumours of violence
- Mr Muneer, Muslim, village life at Partition
- Mrs Long, European, life at Partition
- Mrs Barker & Mrs Orchison, European, being left behind
- Mr Bhatti, Sikh, packing up
- Mrs Saini, Sikh, leaving home
- Mrs Saini, Sikh, migrating
- Mr Bhatti, Sikh, stabbing
- Mrs Barker & Mrs Orchison, European, injured children
- Mrs Barker & Mrs Orchison, European, generous Pathans
- Mrs Barker & Mrs Orchison, European, travelling
- Mr Sandhu, Sikh, riots
- Mr Robinson, European, riots
- Mr Ball, European, the army at Independence
- Mrs Horsfall, European, returning to UK
- Mrs Aitken, European, returning to UK
- Mr Attwal, Sikh, leaving India
- Mr Muneer, Muslim, staying in UK
- Mr Ahmad, Muslim, politics
- Mr Siddiqui, Muslim, living together
- Mr Ahmad, Muslim, Leicester
- Mrs Thiari, Sikh, reflections
- Mr Bhatti, Sikh, next generation
- Mr Muneer, Muslim, reflections
- Mrs Thiari, Sikh, parents' memories
- Mr Attwal, Sikh, attachment to homeland
Page Last Updated: 6 April 2009
