ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME:Colonel and Mrs. C.A.K Innes-Wilson

COLLECTION: 4700.0585

IDENTIFICATION: Britons in pre-Independence India

INTERVIEWER: Frank De Caro, Rosan Jordan

PROJECT: British Voices in South Asia

DATES: 3/29/78 FOCUS DATES: 1930s

Tape 853, Side B2

interview with Colonel C.A.K. Innes-Wilson in Sherborne, England; he spent most of his time in the north, but was also in the Central Provinces for several years; he went to India because his family had traditionally served there; his father and grandfather were there; getting away from the restrictive feeling of serving in the Army in England; in the Survey of India, they had to work very hard; he joined the Survey of India in the spring of 1929; for the first few years, they spent time out in the field surveying themselves, then later they supervised others; aerial survey came later; they had an aerial survey organization on the frontier since the 1920s

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NOTE: This collection is also deposited with the Centre of South Asian Studies at University of Cambridge.