Political Movement in India

Political Movement in India

Partition in India

A sound clip of Mr Jitendra Ramaiya talking about politics in India

Record Office, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

Interview with Mr Jitendra Ramaiya for the Legacy Partition project in 2008

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1947

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Indian movement, I was a volunteer during my school days, that is in Nagpur. So, we wanted, because Mahatma Gandhi said that we want India independence, so we used to take part in this movement, that we want independence from the British rule. But the Indian police were all this, what, they were the Britishers, so they would arrest them. So, my uncle was arrested because he - if anybody comes on the stage and says, ‘Britishers, we don't want you, we want independence’, immediately that inspector will come, come on, bring them into jail. So as many people, they used to take 50 or 60 people, one after the other, the people will go in the stage, ‘Come on, British, you quit India’. I mean, they're addressing the Indian public only. But if you say something against the government, they'll pick you up and put into jail. Not cooperating with the British people, but why? Because we didn't want to fight against no weapons or anything. It was, see, Mahatma Gandhi's was non-violence. We don't want to. We will take what they call lathi charge. Indian police will hit the people for gathering, mass gathering, on this thing. We never used to fight against them. Just take all this.

Mr Colin Hyde

Mr Jitendra Ramaiya

Leicester