ORAL HISTORY OF LABOUR MOVEMENT IN INDIA: Recent submissions

  • Interview of Ranvir Singh Yadav 
    Rajimwale, Anil; Jha, Krishna; Poulose, Bobby (2002-09-17)
    Interview of Ranvir Singh Yadav. He joined the TU movement as an office bearter at the Bikaner workshop of the railways. Participated in the 1967 strike and removed from job for several months. Also participated in the ...
  • Interview of Ratan Roy 
    Unknown author (2000-12-29)
    Profile of Ratan Roy, trade union leader from Bihar. He was the General Secretary of Bihar AITUC for a long time. Born in 1923, he got involved in radical politics through student movement. Initially he was a member of the ...
  • Interview of Ratnakar 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Ratnakar, trade union leader from Maharashtra. Initially associated with the RSS, he went on to join the CPI, after reading books on Marxism. He got associated with the Beedi workers movement in Ahmednagar in ...
  • Interview of Roza Deshpande 
    Rajimwale, Anil (2003-06-21)
    Interview of Roza Deshpande, veteran Left and trade union leader. Born in 1929, both her parents were leading communists. She lived with the workers from her childhood, got educated in Poona and saw the naval mutiny with ...
  • Interview of S. Gangadhar Reddy 
    Unknown author
    Interview and profile of Gangadhar Reddy, General Secretary of All India Centre of Trade Unions, a break away faction of CITU. His college friends were Naxals, but he joined CPM. He helped in court cases of Naxal friends ...
  • Interview of S.C. Krishnan 
    Poulose, Bobby (2001-01-16)
    Interview of Com. S.C. Krishnan; General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Workers Federation.
  • Interview of Salil Kar 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-01-26)
    Interview of Salil Kar, veteran union leader. Born in 1933 in West Bengal, he got active in politics from student days. From 1966 onwards, he became a full timer for CPI. He got deeply involved in the 1969 movement in ...
  • Interview of Samar Chakravorty 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-02-07)
    Interview of Samar Chakravorty, Secretary, Bengal INTUC. Born in Bangladesh, he left home in 1947 for college and got involved in relief work for refugees. Came to the trade union movement under the influence of Aurobindo ...
  • Interview of Sanat Mehta 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Sanat Mehta, trade union leader, and former member of Parliament, from Gujarat. Participated in the Quit India movement, when still a student. Undet the influence of Ashok Mehta, began organising workers in ...
  • Interview of Satpal Dang 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Satpal Dang, veteran CPI leader and legislator from Punjab. Born in Ramnagar, present Pakistan, in a land owning farmer family, he went to the Govt College in Lahore for education. Became General Secretary of ...
  • Interview of Satya Narayan Thakur 
    Rajimwale, Anil; Jha, Krishna
    Interview of Satya Narayan Thakur, Secretary, AITUC. Originally from Darbhanga, and born in 1937, he studied till class 11th. Initially he joined the Khadi Gramodyog in Muzzarpur. In 1970s, he organised an all Bihar khadi ...
  • Interview of Saurbandhu Kar 
    Rajimwale, Anil (2003-01-29)
    Interview of Saurbandhu Kar, General Secretary, Orissa AITUC. Born in 1948 in a middle class family, he joined Bank services and got involved in unionism. He organised movements against child labour, disinvestment in NALCO ...
  • Interview of Shambhu Nath Banerjee 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-01-03)
    Interview of Shambhu Nath Banerjee. A veteran trade union leader, he also regularly practices as a pandit, in shraadh ceremonies. He is associated with the Bharat Sevashram Sangh and made a union of Pandits in Gaya also. ...
  • Interview of Shanti Patel 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-06-23)
    Interview of Shanti Patel, veteran Janata Party Leader and Trade Union leader of the Dock Workers Association. In 1948, when the first Pay Commission was announced, Patel was instrumental in seeking amendments, according ...
  • Interview of Shiv Gopal Mishra 
    Rajimwale, Anil; Poulose, Bobby (2002-10-11)
    Interview of Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, Northen Railway Mazdoor Union and leader of HMS. Born in 1950, he joined railways in 1974, just before the historic strike, as an electrical chargeman. As his job was temporary, ...
  • Interview of Shivaji Patnaik  
    Jha, Krishna (2003-01-27)
    Interview of Shivaji Patnaik, leader, CITU, at Railways in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. Born in 1921, he was recruited as a volunteer in the 1945-46 Praja Mandal movement, when still a student. Also involved in the movement of ...
  • Interview of Sitaram Ramchandra Jagtap 
    Unknown author (2004-07-28)
    Interview and profile of Sitaram Ramchandra Jagtap, leader, Girni Kamgar Union.. Born in an agriculturalist family. Came to Bombay in 1937 in search of jobs. Began working at Saksaria Textile Mills, at the wage of Rs 20 ...
  • Interview of Sowdavaram Sankarayya 
    Unknown author (2004-09-26)
    Interview and profile of S Sankarayya. Trained in ITI and also as a medical practitioner. Worked with factory workers as medical practitioner and helped mine workers. He led many struggles for wage hike, bonus etc for the ...
  • Interview of Sreecharan Baral 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-01-30)
    Interview of Sreecharan Baral. Lawyer by training, he is an independent trade unionist based in Orissa. Associated with the CPI once. Didn't join any party after the split of CPI in 1964.
  • Interview of Sri K. Ramulu 
    Unknown author (2004-09-29)
    Interview and profile of K. Ramulu, INTUC. His father was a textile worker and he too joined the sector at the age of 12. He was also a meber of the Congress Seva Dal during the freedom struggle. In 1941, in the textile ...

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