| Description | Interview with Vaidy Nathan, a student in Madras. He talks about the growth of his political awareness in high school, when he was taught by a member of the Congress movement who had been imprisoned by the British Raj and who followed Gandhi. He discusses his own family's involvement in politics, his grandfather's participation in the Congress movement and the contradiction of his father's service in the British Army during the Second World War. He talks about participating in political debates at school and the development of the Congress movement in the years before Independence. He discusses dissent within the movement, and the concerns of some that Congress would rule through Brahmin dominance rather than 'people's rule' (tracks 1-6)
Total: 09.13 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0133980 |