Interview number: 171

Interviewer: Shanker, Uma

Interview date: 1972-04-17

Length 48 minutes

Condition notes: Noisy microphone and background noise

K. Desai, Gujarati journalist, lawyer, briefly gives his view of the Freedom Struggle from the early thirties to Kasturba’s death in 1944.

Coverage notes: ‘Navbharat’, ‘Jai Bharat’, ‘Bombay Samachar’, ‘Hindustan’; Mazdoor Mahajan; Bardoli taluka; ‘Praja Mitra’; Surat; mamlatdars; Purna Swaraj; Buddha Bhagwan; sainiks; Mahabinishkraman; shamiana; ‘lamp-posts’; Jinnah; Muslim League; Bombay Reclamation Case; B.G. Kher; Kasturba; samadhis; zulum; 1930-1944