ORAL HISTORY OF LABOUR MOVEMENT IN INDIA: Recent submissions

  • Interview of Phani Bora 
    Unknown author (2001-06-05)
    Profile of Phani Bora, prominent CPI leader and trade union leader from Assam. Born in Nagaon, Assam, he was active as an sportsperson since school days and got associated with AISF since then. Organised the first strike ...
  • Interview of Prabhakar Chaudhary 
    Unknown author (2004-09-18)
    Interview and profile of Prabhakar Choudhury, AITUC Leader, Andhra Pradesh. Born in 1922, he was influenced by PC Joshi, and began working on adult education. He also ran night schools at temples to support party activities. ...
  • Interview of Prabhakar Kunte 
    Unknown author (2004-07-27)
    Interview and profile of Prabhakar Kunte, freedom fighter and union activist of INTUC. Initially a communist, who later left the Party in 1942, as CPI opposed the Quit India movement. Got associated with AITUC and then ...
  • Interview of Prabhakar Sanzgiri 
    Jha, Krishna; Rajimwale, Anil (2003-06-27)
    Interview of Prabhakar Sanzgiri, leader, CITU, Maharashtra. Born and educated in Gujarat, he was a leader in the Girni Kamgar Union. He worked in the Prabhadevi area, beginning as a area organiser, for four mills, with a ...
  • Interview of Promod Gogoi 
    Unknown author (2001-06-07)
    Profile of prominent trade union leader, member of parliament and CPI leader from Assam, Promod Gogoi. Born in 1930, he joined CPI in 1947. Initially he organised printing workers and private bus drivers. In 1969, he ...
  • Interview of Purushottam Das Gandhi 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Purushottam Das Gandhi. Born in 1928, he was from Jamnagar, Saurashtra. Participated in the Quit India movement. For studies, went to Bombay and there joined a mill as a clerk and oranised the textile clerks ...
  • Interview of Purushottam Narayan Samant 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-06-23)
    Interview of Purushottam Narayan Samant, also known as Dada Samant, the elder brother of Datta Samant. Born in Deobagh, in a family of farmers. After college, joined western railways and joined the Employees Union there. ...
  • Interview of R. Chakrapani 
    Jha, Krishna; Rajimwale, Anil (2005-03-18)
    Interview and profile of R. Chakrapani, worker and pioneer of handloom workers movement in Tamilnadu. He established the Handloom Workers Union in Trichy in 1946. He was impressed by a speech of P.C. Joshi and then decided ...
  • Interview of R. Govindrao 
    Unknown author (2004-09-21)
    Interview and profile of R. Govindrao, TU activist in Andhra Pradesh Pulp and Paper Mills. Got associated with AISF from school days. Joined the paper mill in 1974 and joined the union the same year. He went on to become ...
  • Interview of R. Kuchelan 
    Jha, Krishna; Rajimwale, Anil (2005-03-11)
    Interview and profile of R. Kuchelan, laywer, trade union leader and fellow traveller of AITUC, Tamilnadu. A post graduate, who first joined CPI, then CPM and then the naxalites. Disillusioned he left and started working ...
  • Interview of R.A. Mittal 
    Rajimwale, Anil; Poulose, Bobby (2002-09-25)
    Interview of R.A. Mittal, veteran trade unionist. He was instrumental in the formation of the All India Train Examiners Association in Bareilley. In the 1968 strike, he led in stopping the trains, and lost his job, and got ...
  • Interview of R.D. Tripathi 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-06-15)
    Interview of R.D. Tripathi, veteran trade unionist. Formed a separate and independent union in BHEL in 1961, after joining the company. Also got involved in the all India govt employees strike of 1962. In 1969, he organised ...
  • Interview of R.D.C.P. Rao 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-06-18)
    Interview of R.D.C.P. Rao. Union leader, Andhra Pradesh. Instrumental in organising an agitation of people for a steel plant in Andhra Pradesh in 1970s. Joined the National Mineral Development Corporation as a Press Card ...
  • Interview of R.G. Karnik 
    Rajimwale, Anil (2003-06-25)
    Interview of R.G. Karnik, Chairman, All India Government Employees Federation. Led struggles of the govt employees on issues such as DA, which was earlier organised in a British pattern, till the 1960s. Organised unique ...
  • Interview of Raj Bahadur Gaur 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Dr. Raj Bahadur Gaur, veteran freedom fighter and union leader from Andhra Pradesh. Born in 1913, he joined the CPI in 1939. He got in touch with the striking railway workers in Hyderabad in 1940, and it was ...
  • Interview of Raja Kulkarni 
    Unknown author (2004-07-30)
    Interview and profile of Raja Kulkarni, INTUC union activist for last 50 years. Initially worked in the textile mills of Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He was the general secretary of the Mill Mazdoor Sabha, from 1949-1959. In ...
  • Interview of Rajendra Prasad Yadav 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-01-22)
    Interview of Rajendra Prasad Yadav. He was from a family of freedom fighters and he came to Bokaro in 1969, to work as a supervisor in GRSEL, but soon joined the trade union movement there. Worked specially with unorganised ...
  • Interview of Rajshekhar Mantri 
    Unknown author (2004-09-14)
    Interview and profile of Rajshekhar Mantri, Vizag Steel Plant Workers Union. Got elected as General Secretary in 1982 for the first time. He joined INTUC, as his grandfather too was in the Congress. He has led campaigns ...
  • Interview of Rama Moorthy 
    Unknown author (2004-09-09)
    Interview and profile of Rama Moorthy leader of HMS. He works with temple workers, ministerial, municipal and other workers. In material matters, he thinks that the "union is god".
  • Interview of Ranen Sen 
    Unknown author (2000-12-24)
    Interview of Ranen Sen, one of the early builders of the communist movement in Bengal. Began political life in 1925, and joined Yugantar. After reading books of Marx, and meeting communist leaders, he joined the Workers ...

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