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Stories my country told me : with Eqbal Ahmad / a Penumbra Production for BBC Arena and RM Arts ; producer/director, H.O. Nazareth.
LIBRA DVD 001 682
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:
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on videodisc container: Eqbal Ahmad and the partitioning of India
- Meaning of nationhood
- Partitioning of India
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003.
- System Details:
- DVD ; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Eqbal Ahmad, a leading authority on colonialism and nationalism, travels Pakistan's and India's Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Lahoue, 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:
- Editor, Jon Whitson ; camera, Ranjan Kamath, Arif Ali ; music, The Fratelli Brothers.
- Notes:
- DVD release of program originally broadcast as an episode of Arena in 1996.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 53103731
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 10087 Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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