Questions
to get you started
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Introduction
These questions underneath are intended to make you
start thinking about the past.
In remembering the past, it is often difficult to
think of where to start.
One does not know what could be of interest
to others, looking back, one has just lead ones ordinary life and many
believe that there is not much to tell really.
To overcome these problems, we have come up with the
following questions.
Just go through them and have a think.
Even if you cannot (and you do not have to) answer
many of them,
they should get you started in thinking of the past
and youll be surprised how many interesting things
will come to mind.
You can then start recording or writing down what you
most want to tell us.
In doing that, try just to tell us what you
remember for yourself
and do not look up/double check things in books etc.
(If you know a good book though, please let us have the details (title, author
etc.) of that, or send a copy if only a small part of it is of interest.)
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Start-up
Questions
To get a Word copy of the copyright release form
please click here:
http://www.calcutta1940s.org/C40Questionnaire.doc
Start-up
Questions
Arriving
in When did you
first come to the city? How
did you make you way to the city? What did you
know about What did you
dislike most? What
did you enjoy most? Your
Accommodation__________________________________________________________________ Describe the
place where you were living? What
kind of neighbours did you have? Did you have
servants? What were they like? What was the neighbourhood like? Any trouble?
What did you
eat? What was the health
situation like? Occupation &
Money___________________________________________________________________ What did you
or you family do to earn a living? What
was their typical day like? Did you go
to school/University? Where
and what was it like? What was
your economic situation? What
prices do you remember? What things
did you buy / or wanted to buy and where? What were
your relations with other Indians? What were
your relations with the British? Were you
aware of other ethnic groups living in Festivals &
Events_____________________________________________________________________ Did we ever
take part in any religious festivals, or other unusual events? Enjoying Free
Time____________________________________________________________________ What did you
do in the evenings/weekends? Did
you go out? If so, where to? Did you meet
friends? Did you go dancing/to
the cinema/to restaurant/to clubs etc.? What was the
food like? Did you ever go on trips
outside the city? Summing
up__________________________________________________________________________ What upsets
you/ makes you happy most when you think back to those times? Historic Events & Famous
People________________________________________________________ Can you
remember meeting any famous people? How
did you hear of the news? Did you see
any evidence of political agitation? Did
you hear of political groups at the time? Did you notice
anyone involved in politics or did other campaigning? What did you think of
them? What was
your view of British colonial rule in Did you see
any war damage/rioting/famine in Leaving When did you
leave? How did you leave What did you
miss most? Are you
still in contact with others of your time in Did you ever
come back? If so, what
did you feel on returning to the city?
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Also have a look through our
website http://www.calcutta1940s.org
and see if it triggers any memories.
Please send anything in letter form of by
e-mail to:
Calcutta 1940s
c/o Hauke & Sushmita Wiebe
2/1,
Portland Terrace
EDINBURGH EH6 6JZ
United
Kingdom
e-mail:
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Copyright Release
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please click here:
http://www.calcutta1940s.org/C40CopyrightRelease.doc
As present owner of the copyright in the contributor content (i.e. the words spoken by the
interviewee), I hereby assign such copyright to the I am giving Calcutta1940s the right to use and make available the
content of the recorded interview in the following ways: Ψ use in schools, universities,
colleges and other educational establishments, including use in a thesis,
dissertation or similar research Ψ public performance, lectures or
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print, audio or video cassettes or CD ROM Ψ public reference purposes in
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Address:
Postcode
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Contributor Detail Sheet
To find out more about people submitting material
to us, we have set up this Intro-Questionnaire. The data will be used for research purposes, as well as allowing
us to contact people to get further details or clear up misunderstandings
in submissions.
Whenever you submit any material to us, we would be
very happy if you could add a filled in Into-Questionnaire to it. This would then allow us to process your
material much better and improve our research of it. If there are any points of interest for instance, we could
contact you, and ask you to elaborate on certain topics we want to know more
about.
Before you fill in the Into-Questionnaire we hope
you can have a quick look though the paragraph below and consider the two
following very important issues.
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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 |
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