e-mail: info@calcutta1940s.org ● Sitemap ● Reference ● Last updated: 11-March-2009
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Nothing in this project could be achieved without
you.
It is your interest, your
memories, your contributions of material and your ideas which make us
interesting and keep us going.
And… we need your practical help! (please look underneath at “Be a Volunteer”)
Please note, we cannot pay anything at the moment, as this project is run on a purely
voluntary basis and does not receive any grants or other material aid from
anyone. (sorry!)
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Do you have personal memories of Calcutta in
the 1940s? Send them to us (both written or recorded) or call us to come and
interview you.
Do you know some one who has personal
memories of Calcutta in the 1940s? Let us know and point them towards us,
so we can get into contact.
Apart from reminiscences, we are also looking for old
maps, photos, diaries, postcards, letters, cinema tickets, theatre programmes,
anything else from the era, etc.
In addition to this
unpublished material, we are always interested in published material on the
era, like memoirs and autobiographies, historybooks, old guidebooks and
directories, newspaper articles.
To get yourself
going have a look at the questions on page:
http://www.calcutta1940s.org/204startupquestions.html
To find out more
about people submitting material to us, we would lke to know a little bit more about you. The data will be used for research purposes, as well as allowing
us to contact you to get further details or clear up misunderstandings in
submissions.
For this please consider the following questions:
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Name
(see anonymity) ______________________________________ When
where you born ? _____________________________________ male
[ ],
female [ ] Where
/ how can we contact you? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ In
which language would you like us to contact you? English [ ],
Bengali [ ], Hindi [
], Other (Please specify:
____________) When
did you come to Calcutta? ____________________________________________ When
did you leave Calcutta? ____________________________________________ Where
in or around Calcutta did you live at the time? (Please
specify: ___________________________________________) Which
ethnic community would you consider yourself to be a part of? Bengali
[ ] - Hindu [ ],
Muslim [ ], Sched. Caste [ ], East Bengali [ ],
Kolkatan [ ] Other Bengali [ ],
(Please specify: _____________________________) Bihari
[ ],
Orissan [ ], Assamese [ ], Nepali [ ],
Marwari [ ] Other
Indian [ ], (Please specify: ______________________________) British [ ],
other European/American [
], (Please specify: ___________) Anglo
Indian [ ], Jewish [ ], Armenian [ ], Parsee [ ],
Greek [ ], Chinese [
] Other
[ ], (Please specify: ___________________________________) What
did you do in Calcutta? (please tick) Military
[ ],
Police [ ], Civil servant [ ], Worker [ ],
Framer [ ], Housewife [ ], Professional [ ],
(Please specify: ____________________________) Commercial
[ ],
(Which industry? ____________________________) Student
[ ],
School pupil [ ], Other [ ],
(Please specify: __________________________________) Please send the filled in
form to: Calcutta 1940s c/o
Hauke & Sushmita Wiebe 2/1, Portland Terrace EDINBURGH EH6 6JZ United Kingdom or simply e-mail them as an
attachment to : e-mail: info@calcutta1940s.org |
Before you pass
on material to us please consider the two following very important
issues: anonymity and publication. And read the paragraphs below.
We understand that some of
the memories you might want to share with us, are very personal. Some of the things you might want tell are
things, you may want to be recorded for posterity, but do not want to be
publicly connected with you or your family.
If you think
this is the case, we offer two levels of anonymity.
Firstly, you can always send
in material without disclosing your name.
In this case we
hope that you can still give us as much detail on you as possible with out
identifying yourself (just leave off the name). The rest of the data will then be used for research
purposes. It will never be used to
identify you.
This method has
the disadvantage that we will never be able to contact you to ask for further
details, clear up misunderstandings etc.
Secondly, you can give us
your name but tell us which part of your material you want to be anonymous. In this case we would know you name, but
would not disclose it to outside parties in any publication of any of
your material.
This has the
advantage that we can get in touch with your for further research, should that
be necessary.
Other
people’s anonymity
If you want to keep
the anonymity of other people you are mentioning in your memories, then
either use aliases for them, and then let us know where you have changed
any names. If you want us to know the real names but not have those names
used in publication, just give us a list of names to be changed together
with a list of what you want them changed to.
Most of the
material given to us as part of the project will be made public. At first this will be on our website but in
future it can be either in the form of books / articles or in some way of
public access to a database.
We understand
that not everyone who gives material to us will want that. If you do not want your material to be made
public at any time, let us know.
If you want your
material to be made public only after a certain deadline, let us know
what that is, and please remember to tell us when we have passed that
deadline. Any material not cleared for
publication will then only be used for our own research.
If no notes on
anonymity or non-publication are received we assume that the material and all
names submitted are free for publication.
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- We will need translators to translate
material from various Indian languages into English and in the longer run also
into Bengali and Hindi.
- We will also need transcribers to type in
texts from books to add them to our database.
- We need people with access to newspaper and
photo archives (Telegraph & Statesman etc.) to copy out interesting
articles or photos for us.
- We need interviewers who interview (and
record and transcribe those interviews) with people who remember Calcutta. The interviewer will chiefly be needed in
Kolkata and Bengal. But we will also soon need interviewers in the rest of
India, in Bangladesh and overseas in Great Britain, Australia, North America
and other countries where ex-Calcuttans have gone to live.
If you think you can help us, then please contact
us at:
Calcutta 1940s
c/o Hauke & Sushmita Wiebe
2/1,
Portland Terrace
EDINBURGH EH6 6JZ
United
Kingdom
e-mail:
BUT, We cannot pay anything at the moment, as this project is run on a purely
voluntary basis and does not receive any grants or other material aid from
anyone. (sorry!)
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