Archive / Audio / D.N. Shikhare

Interview number: 131

Interviewer: Shanker, Uma

Interview date: 1970-04-18

Length 32 minutes

Condition notes: Clean except for switch noise, and one stop/start aberration


D.N. Shikhare, Marathi biographer, describes interviews he had at various times with Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, between 1933 and 1953.


Coverage notes: Gandhi, Prasad, Nehru; ‘The Mahatma’; Harijan; ‘inner voice’; Jinnah; Muslim League; Savarkar; Mahasabha; Tilak; Sadhus; Sawar, Vawar; local vs. foreign policy; India cf. Africa; change; corruption; 1933-1953