Interview number: 225
Interviewer: Shanker, Uma
Interview date: 1989-01-19
Length 44 minutes
Condition notes: High levels of microphone noise.
K.D. Kohli, journalist, talks of joining the C.D. Movement, Rawalpindi and Lyallpur jails, Lajpat Rai and his British tour, his experiences with ‘The Hindustan Times’ and other newspapers, Nehru’s ‘Eight-Days Interlude’ pamphlet, and Partition riots.
Coverage notes: Rawalpindi; Lyallpur; seers; ‘The Hindustan Times’; jail conditions; Pathans; tiktiki; Lajpat Rai; Oxford Majlis; ‘The National Call’, ‘Navyug’; The Printer’s House; ‘Eight-Days Interlude’ pamphlet; riots, refugees; Sardar Patel; Shahdara; Aligarh; Guru-ka-Bagh; newspaper production; 1920-1948