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Stories my country told me : with Eqbal Ahmad / Penumbra Production for BBC Arena and RM Arts ; producer and director, H. O. Nazareth.
LIBRA VHS DS385.A447 S86 2000
Available from offsite location
LIBRA VHS DS385.A447 S86 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ahmad, Eqbal--Political and social views.
- Ahmad, Eqbal.
- Nationalism--India.
- Nationalism.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- India.
- Nationalism--Pakistan.
- Pakistan.
- Grand Trunk Road (India and Pakistan).
- Pakistan--History--20th century.
- Pakistan--Politics and government--20th century.
- India--History--20th century.
- India--Politics and government--20th century.
- India--History--Partition, 1947.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on cassette container: Eqbal Ahmad and the partitioning of India
- Partitioning of India
- Title on cassette label: Stories my country told me, the meaning of nationhood
- Meaning of nationhood
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : RM Associates ; Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2000]
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Eqbal Ahmad, a leading authority on colonialism and nationalism, travels Pakistan's and India's Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Lahore, commenting on the history and politics of the subcontinent. Having personally experienced, as a child, the partition into India and Pakistan, he speaks movingly of the evil effects of nationalism and sectarian hatred.
- Credits:
- Photography, Ranjan Kamath ; editor, Jon Whitson ; camera, Ranjan Kamath, Arif Ali ; music, The Fratelli Brothers.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- OCLC:
- 63587136
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 10087 Penumbra Production
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