Archives of Indian Labour: Recent submissions

  • Interview of Amar Krishna Vyas 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Amar Krishna Vyas, veteran trade union leader and Socialist Party leader, Rajasthan. Participated in Quit India movement and got influenced by the Praja Lok Mandal. Began working with Sweepers. A Harijan union ...
  • Interview of Amrit Nahata 
    Unknown author
    Interview of veteran trade union leader Amrit Nahata, from Rajasthan. Began from student politics and became very active in the Praja Mandal. Was active in the railway strike of 1946/47, which coincided with the birthday ...
  • Interview of Anant Nagapurkar 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Anant Nagapurkar, Member of the General Council of AITUC, Vice-president of the Maharashtra TUC. Born in 1920, he joined CPI in 1941. Organised railway workers in Hyderabad from 1943 onwards, on direction of ...
  • Interview of Anantha Subha Rao 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Anantha Subha Rao, leader, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. Born in 1942, he got influenced by MC Narsimhan in his college days. Joined AITUC and he was asked to work in the road transport union, ...
  • Interview of Anantha Tirtha 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Anantha Tirtha, veteran freedom fighter and trade union leader, Bangalore. Born in a landlord family in 1934, he got influenced by Handhi initially. He organised workers in Enginnering, laundry and other ...
  • Interview of Anirudh Singh 
    Poulose, Bobby (2003-01-29)
    Interview of Anirudh Singh, Iron a Steel Leader, Bokaro Steel Plant and General Secretary of Bokaro Ispat Kamgar Union. Born in 1949, in Patna, he got associated with communist politics in college days. Also got associated ...
  • Interview of B. Venkat Rao 
    Unknown author (2004-09-11)
    Interview and profile of Venkat Rao, worker, Vizag Steel Plant Union of AITUC. Joined the steel plant when it was still in construction. Got involved with CPI as a youth, when his family got displaced by the plant and CPI ...
  • Interview of B.C. Masen 
    Unknown author (2004-09-09)
    Interview and profile of B.C. Masen, General Secretary, Harbour and Pork Workers Union, Andhra Pradesh. Belongs to the family of a fishermen. Got radicalised in youth while associated with a literary circle. Was active in ...
  • Interview of B.V. Kakilaya 
    Unknown author
    Interview of trade union leader B.V. Kakilaya, Karnataka. Belonged to a landlord family, and fought in the freedom struggle. Also participated in the Goa Satyagraha.
  • Interview of Baba Kartar Singh 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Baba Kartar Singh, union leader, Chandigarh, Punjab. Had organised railway workers in Lahore in pre-independence era. Organised textile and other workers in post-independence period.
  • Interview of Badri Prasad Sharma 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Badri Prasad Sharma, union leader, All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF), Delhi. Born in 1928, from childhood he got influenced by left wing politics. Began working in a garment factory and then started ...
  • Interview of Baijnath Rai 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-02-11)
    Interview of Baijnath Rai, Chairman of the Steering Committee of Bengal State, Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh. A school teacher by profession, he also works as trade union organiser. He was born in 1946 in 24 Pargana, Bengal. His ...
  • Interview of Bal Krishna Gupta 
    Jha, Krishna (2003-05-26)
    Interview of Bal Krishna Gupta, leader of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Madhya Pradesh. Born in 1920, he began politics on the question of civil liberties in the Bhopal estate. Organised a movement for the merger ...
  • Interview of Bhikubhai Baghela 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Bhikubhai Baghela, President of Jamnagar Trade Union Council and Vice-president of Gujarat State TUC (AITUC). Himself a worker, Baghela is also the president of many unions, such as the Woolen Mills Workers ...
  • Interview of Bishu Mukherjee 
    Unknown author
    Interview of Bishu Mukherjee, trade union leader, Benares, Uttar Pradesh. Born in 1928 in Benaras, he was from a upper caste Brahmin family and came into contact with Bengal revolutionaries when still a school going child. ...
  • Interview of C. Balakrishna 
    Unknown author (2004-09-28)
    Interview and profile of C. Balakrishna, AITUC Leader. Born in 1940, he started working with CPI since student days. He resumed studies only in 1960s and graduated in 1964. He also worked with Beedi workers, and went on ...
  • Interview of C. Balaya 
    Unknown author (2004-09-26)
    Interview and profile of C. Balaya, freedom fighter, AITUC leader and organiser of weaver cooperatives. Belongs to a weaver family, and initially a Congress worker. Campaigned for Khadi, inspired by Gandhi. He joined AITUC ...
  • Interview of C. Prasad Kumar 
    Unknown author (2004-09-20)
    Interview and profile of C. Prasad Kumar, worker and AITUC leader, Andhra Pulp and Paper Mills. He was involved with AISF from student days and later joined the factory. He speaks four languages and very popular with ...
  • Interview of C.G. Rajaram 
    Jha, Krishna; Rajimwale, Anil (2005-03-13)
    Interview and profile of C.G. Rajaram, Secretary, Tamilnadu Retired Electricity Workers Association, Chennai. He began as a typist in the Tamilnadu Electricity Board in 1959. He led many struggles of the Electricity workers, ...
  • Uttar Pradesh [Party - TU, 1948-1949] 
    Unknown author (1948)
    Provincial Political Congress Report regarding the political situation during the period of 1946-47 and CPI's intervention in it. Note on Party and AITUC work in the districts of UP.