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Indira Devi of Kapurthala

December 15, 2023

Indira Devi of Kapurthala (26 February 1912 – 1 September 1979), affectionately known as the Radio Princess, was an Indian socialite and princess, the eldest grandchild of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of the princely state of Kapurthala in Punjab, British India. During the Second World War she was recruited as a political correspondent to George Orwell, for the India team of the BBC. There she became a regular broadcaster of the programme The Debate Continues from the House of Commons, and Hello Punjab, a programme in Hindustani for the British Indian Army. With Narayana Menon she hosted the Indian Service musical programmes.

Indira Devi
Devi in 1938[1]
Born(1912-02-26)26 February 1912
Kapurthala, Kapurthala State, British India
Died1 September 1979(1979-09-01) (aged 67)
Ibiza, Spain
EducationQueen Mary College, Lahore
OccupationRadio presenter
Years active1939–1968
EmployerBBC Radio
Known for
Parent
RelativesJagatjit Singh (grandfather)

At the age of 23, Devi had secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters, and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For a brief period, she worked at London Films with Alexander Korda, and in 1938, she appeared on stage for the first time, when she played the role of a Turkish slave girl.

At the onset of the Second World War, Devi sat the St John Ambulance examinations and qualified in first aid. She subsequently transported casualties during the Blitz. In 1943, she was appointed permanently within the BBC Radio's Overseas Service Division, and in 1951, she reported on the 30th anniversary of the 1921 Northern Ireland general election. Following a road trip to India in 1958, she narrated a film by the explorer Count Vitold de Golish, Twilight of the Maharajahs, for the BBC in their Adventure series. It was delivered alongside her own life, having discovered old film footage after revisiting her former palace in India. She continued to work for the BBC until 1968, and spent her last years in Ibiza, Spain, where she managed a bar.

Early life and education edit

Indira Devi was born in Kapurthala on 26 February 1912, to the Sikh prince Paramjit Singh and his Hindu Rajput wife Brinda Devi.[2][3] She was the eldest of their three daughters and the eldest grandchild of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of the princely state of Kapurthala in Punjab, British India.[3][4] In infancy, she failed to grow until fed on goat's milk,[5] and in 1919, she caught measles along with her sisters.[6] Her mother later recalled that Devi was close to being spoilt and was sent to board at Queen Mary College, Lahore.[7] There, she studied politics,[8] and decided she would like to be an actress.[7] In 1934, she was noted to "have done exceptionally well" as an owner of dogs at the Tail-Waggers Club,[9] and she was known to feel more comfortable in her jodhpurs during the day and a saree for formal wear.[10]

At the age of 23 years she secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters, Sushila and Ourmilla.[3][10] At the time, her mother was visiting the United States, and upon receiving Devi's telegram stating "I have left India without permission" ... "and am on my way to London", her mother went to London to meet her.[10] Devi had saved her allowances and following her departure against her father and grandfather's wishes, had supposedly been the centre of much gossip in India.[11] She arrived in London on the SS Kaisar-I-Hind on 15 November 1935, giving her forwarding address as Westbourne Street, W2.[12][a] In London, her mother, initially furious over the incident, ultimately helped her enroll at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and enlisted the help of Walter Pidgeon, who provided the letter introducing her to Alexander Korda, who reluctantly intervened.[10][14] For a brief period, she worked at London Films with Korda, who intended to launch her career in films, after Merle Oberon.[3] She played several extra-roles, learnt to walk like a model and how to do Western make-up.[15] She appeared on stage for the first time in 1938, when she played the role of a Turkish slave girl in a play about Keats, Byron and Shelley, The Heart was not Burned, at the Gate Theatre.[11][16][b] She subsequently had a role in the children's theatrical piece Let's Pretend.[11] Her sisters were reported to visit her in London, and the three were popular socialites of the 1930s.[18] In addition, sometime in the 1930s, she also featured in Vogue.[19]

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    Indira Devi with her mother and two sisters[1]

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    Indira Devi (centre) with her sisters princesses Sushila (left) and Ourmilla (right) (1935)[1]

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    Indira Devi, mid 1930s, Kinsey Studios, Delhi.[1]

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    Indira Devi, likely mid-1930s, Hay Wrightson Ltd.[20]

Second World War edit

 
Indira Devi at the BBC, December 1942[21]

At the onset of the Second World War, Devi sat and passed the St John Ambulance first aid examination, and subsequently transported casualties during the Blitz.[3][22] Earlier, she had travelled Europe and was in Munich in 1939, at the time of the Munich Crisis.[23] For a short while, she worked as a censor for the wartime department of postal censorship.[8]

She joined BBC Radio in 1939.[14] At that time, she lived at 512a Nell Gwynn House, Sloane Avenue, Kensington.[18] In 1941, she became political correspondent for the India team of the BBC, with George Orwell as the talk producer, and with the aim at enlisting Indian support for the War.[24] Others on the team included Mulk Raj Anand, Venu Chitale, Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari, T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster.[24] She appeared regularly on the Home Service and the Eastern Service, and became affectionately known as the "Radio Princess".[25][26] She hosted talks with Indian men in technical training based in the UK, and a 30-minute programme called Hello Punjab, a programme in Hindustani for the British Indian Army based in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.[22][27] From the House of Commons, where she was sometimes the only woman in the press gallery,[8] she analysed and broadcast weekly reports to India in a programme called The Debate Continues.[22][27] With Narayana Menon she hosted the Indian Service musical programmes, and was familiar with popular and classical western music.[28] In 1943 she was appointed permanently at the Overseas Service Division.[25]

With regard to the BBC's wartime broadcasts to listeners in India, when an initial questionnaire was sent across India asking about who people preferred to listen to, Devi was found to be twice as popular as Orwell.[29][c] BBC producer Trevor Hill later recalled in his memoirs Over the Airwaves, that Devi was a "very elegant lady in beautifully cut English tweeds, and with a beautifully cut Oxford accent to match".[31] In India she was noted to have a "very good command of English".[28]

Post-war life edit

In February 1948, Devi was cleared of a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol in November 1947, but given a fine for dangerous driving, found to be due to taking pills containing ephedrine, caffeine and phenobarbitone, which she mistook for aspirin.[32] At the time she resided at Yeoman's Row, Chelsea.[32] In 1949, when her father became the Maharaja of Kapurthala, following the death of her grandfather, she was living in Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire.[3][4]

In 1951, Devi visited Stormont.[33] There, she reported on the anniversary of the 1921 Northern Ireland general election.[34] The following year she visited New York to see the new United Nations Building and report on the International Refugee Organization.[35] She left New York on 23 January 1952 on the SS Liberté bound for Plymouth.[36] The following month, Frances P. Bolton had praised her report as "clear and concise" and included it in her remarks at the House of Representatives.[35]

In 1953, Devi co-directed a musical with Wauna Paul.[37] That year, the Daily Mirror published a photograph of Devi changing the tyre of a caravan, also carrying Paul; they were preparing to drive to India.[38] In 1962, following her return from India, she narrated a film by the explorer Count Vitold de Golish, Twilight of the Maharajahs, for the BBC in their Adventure series.[39] It was delivered alongside her own life, having discovered old film footage after recently revisiting her former family palace.[40] In 1963 she narrated Disciples of the Sword, a film about the Sikhs by Rustom Master in the same series.[41][42] She continued to work for the BBC until 1968.[25]

In later life she moved to Ibiza, Spain, where she managed a bar.[19] She died there in September 1979.[3]

Selected publications edit

  • The Revenge of the Gods: A story of ancient Egypt. The Eastern Press, London, 1928.[43]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Devi's arrival in England is given as 1 January 1935 in The Open University document.[3] She had previously visited London at least once, when at age two she accompanied her parents from Paris at the onset of World War I.[13]
  2. ^ Cast with James Mason and Pamela Brown, at the Gate Theatre in London, not Dublin.[17]
  3. ^ How accurate the report was is not clear. Laurence Brander, who was tasked to investigate the impact of the Indian programmes, did not gather the data himself, and told Orwell that very few Indians listened to the broadcasts.[29][30]

References edit

Citations edit

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  2. ^ Williams, Elaine (2003). "1". Memoirs of a rebellious princess. pp. 1–14.
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  4. ^ a b "The Princess Indira". Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News. 24 June 1949. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ Williams, Elaine (2003). "9". Memoirs of a rebellious princess. pp. 117–129.
  6. ^ Williams, Elaine (2003). "11". Memoirs of a rebellious princess. pp. 145–159.
  7. ^ a b Williams, Elaine (2003). "14". Memoirs of a rebellious princess. p. 199.
  8. ^ a b c "She talks to India". Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore). 15 October 1944. p. 3. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Tail-wagger sergeants - Champion Recruiter". Bournemouth Weekly Post and Graphic. 13 January 1934. p. 12. Retrieved 25 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ a b c d Williams, Elaine (2003). "15". Memoirs of a rebellious princess. pp. 205–219.
  11. ^ a b c Chambers, Colin (2011). "4. Between the wars". Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: a history. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 83–107. ISBN 978-1-134-21689-5.
  12. ^ UK and Ireland, incoming passenger lists, 1878-1960. The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 1075; Item: 23. [1] via ancestry.com. (subscription required)
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  14. ^ a b Collett, Nigel (2022). "Notes". Developing the Heart: E.M. Forster and India. City University of Hong Kong Press. p. 353. ISBN 978-962-937-590-4.
  15. ^ "Princess as film extra". Nottingham Journal. 8 April 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 25 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  16. ^ "What other people are doing". The Sphere. 3 December 1938. p. 393. Retrieved 25 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.}
  17. ^ Sweeney, Kevin (1999). James Mason: A Bio-bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 238. ISBN 0-313-28496-2.
  18. ^ a b Singh, Ranveer (2020). "Sikh history on the streets of London: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea" (PDF). Sikh Research Journal. 5 (1): 24–25.
  19. ^ a b Princess Indira Devi of Kapurthala. Indian women and war. BIMCIC. p.12.
  20. ^ Williams, Elaine (2003). "Photos". Memoirs of a rebellious princess.
  21. ^ "BBC Photo Sales". Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  22. ^ a b c Webster, Wendy (2018). "3. The Empire comes to Britain". Mixing it: Diversity in World War Two Britain. Oxford University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-19-873576-2.
  23. ^ "BBC Princess". Northern Whig. 19 June 1951. Retrieved 26 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  24. ^ a b Bhatt, Arunkumar (2006). "9. The Indian experience". Psychological Warfare and India. New Delhi: Lancer Publishers. p. 251. ISBN 81-7062-133-X.
  25. ^ a b c Bainbridge, Emma; Stadtler, Florian (2012). "10. Calling from London, talking to India: South Asian networks at the BBC and the case of G. V. Desani". In Susheila Nasta (ed.). India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858–1950. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Springer. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-230-39272-4.
  26. ^ Potter, Simon J. (2022). "3. Propaganda and war 1939-1945". This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922–2022. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-289852-4.
  27. ^ a b Kaul, Chandrika (2020). "12. "The meek ass between two burdens?" The BBC and India during the Second World War". In Eliot, Simon; Wiggam, Marc (eds.). Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-350-10513-3.
  28. ^ a b Rodrigues, Abha Sharma (1994). "George Orwell, the BBC and India: a critical study". University of Edinburgh: 85–86. This thesis focuses attention on the two years that George Orwell spent, between August 1941 and November 1943, at the Indian Section of the B.B.C., producing propaganda talks for listeners in India and elsewhere. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  29. ^ a b Rodrigues, Abha Sharma (1994). "George Orwell, the BBC and India: a critical study". University of Edinburgh: 236. This thesis focuses attention on the two years that George Orwell spent, between August 1941 and November 1943, at the Indian Section of the B.B.C., producing propaganda talks for listeners in India and elsewhere. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  30. ^ Orwell, George; Davison, Peter (1998). Davison, Peter (ed.). Two Wasted Years: 1943. Secker & Warburg. pp. 343–344. ISBN 0-436-40409-5.
  31. ^ Hill, Trevor (2005). "3. 200Oxford Street, with the BBC's Overseas Service". Over the Airwaves: My Life in Broadcasting. Sussex: The Book Guild. p. 28. ISBN 1-85776-832-9. OCLC 1245625342.
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  34. ^ "Festival recordings". Lisburn Standard. 31 August 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 26 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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  40. ^ Radio Times. G. Newnes. 1962. p. 49. Today's Adventure programme, Twilight of the Maharajas shows something of the former glories of the princes, and couples with this the personal story of Princess Indira of Kapurthala who ran away from her grandfather's court to settle in England. A year ago she returned to Kapurthala for the first time since leaving her ancestral home. In the palace … she discovered half-a-dozen rusty cans of old film showing the princely life as it was over a generation ago.
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Bibliography edit

  • Williams, Elaine (2003). Maharani: Memoirs of a rebellious princess. Brinda, Maharani of Kapurthala. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. ISBN 0-595-09428-7.

Further reading edit

  • Sukhjit Singh., Frederick, Cynthia Meera. 2019 Prince, Patron and Patriarch: Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala. India: Showcase/Roli Books. ISBN 9788193860854
  • Calder, Ritchie; Dover, Cedric; Ch'ien, Hsiao; Orwell, George (1943). Talking to India. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
  • Williams, Elaine (1954). Maharani: Memoirs of a rebellious princess. Brinda, Maharani of Kapurthala. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-595-09428-7.
  • Singh, Sukhjit; Frederick, Cynthia Meera (2019). Kumar, K. G. Pramod (ed.). Prince, Patron and Patriarch: Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala. Roli Books. ISBN 978-81-938608-5-4.

External links edit

  •   Media related to Indira Devi of Kapurthala at Wikimedia Commons
  • Portraits of Indira Devi of Kapurthala at the National Portrait Gallery, London  
  • BBC documentary: 19 Metre Band ("Go behind the scenes of Indian programmes on the BBC General Overseas Service (later the World Service)") (1941)

December 15, 2023
indira, devi, kapurthala, february, 1912, september, 1979, affectionately, known, radio, princess, indian, socialite, princess, eldest, grandchild, maharaja, jagatjit, singh, princely, state, kapurthala, punjab, british, india, during, second, world, recruited. Indira Devi of Kapurthala 26 February 1912 1 September 1979 affectionately known as the Radio Princess was an Indian socialite and princess the eldest grandchild of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of the princely state of Kapurthala in Punjab British India During the Second World War she was recruited as a political correspondent to George Orwell for the India team of the BBC There she became a regular broadcaster of the programme The Debate Continues from the House of Commons and Hello Punjab a programme in Hindustani for the British Indian Army With Narayana Menon she hosted the Indian Service musical programmes Indira DeviDevi in 1938 1 Born 1912 02 26 26 February 1912Kapurthala Kapurthala State British IndiaDied1 September 1979 1979 09 01 aged 67 Ibiza SpainEducationQueen Mary College LahoreOccupationRadio presenterYears active1939 1968EmployerBBC RadioKnown forPolitical correspondent to George Orwell The Debate Continues from the House of Commons 1940s Hosting Hello Punjab 1940s ParentBrinda Devi mother RelativesJagatjit Singh grandfather At the age of 23 Devi had secretly travelled to London to become an actress telling only her two sisters and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art For a brief period she worked at London Films with Alexander Korda and in 1938 she appeared on stage for the first time when she played the role of a Turkish slave girl At the onset of the Second World War Devi sat the St John Ambulance examinations and qualified in first aid She subsequently transported casualties during the Blitz In 1943 she was appointed permanently within the BBC Radio s Overseas Service Division and in 1951 she reported on the 30th anniversary of the 1921 Northern Ireland general election Following a road trip to India in 1958 she narrated a film by the explorer Count Vitold de Golish Twilight of the Maharajahs for the BBC in their Adventure series It was delivered alongside her own life having discovered old film footage after revisiting her former palace in India She continued to work for the BBC until 1968 and spent her last years in Ibiza Spain where she managed a bar Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Second World War 3 Post war life 4 Selected publications 5 Notes 6 References 6 1 Citations 6 2 Bibliography 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life and education editIndira Devi was born in Kapurthala on 26 February 1912 to the Sikh prince Paramjit Singh and his Hindu Rajput wife Brinda Devi 2 3 She was the eldest of their three daughters and the eldest grandchild of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of the princely state of Kapurthala in Punjab British India 3 4 In infancy she failed to grow until fed on goat s milk 5 and in 1919 she caught measles along with her sisters 6 Her mother later recalled that Devi was close to being spoilt and was sent to board at Queen Mary College Lahore 7 There she studied politics 8 and decided she would like to be an actress 7 In 1934 she was noted to have done exceptionally well as an owner of dogs at the Tail Waggers Club 9 and she was known to feel more comfortable in her jodhpurs during the day and a saree for formal wear 10 At the age of 23 years she secretly travelled to London to become an actress telling only her two sisters Sushila and Ourmilla 3 10 At the time her mother was visiting the United States and upon receiving Devi s telegram stating I have left India without permission and am on my way to London her mother went to London to meet her 10 Devi had saved her allowances and following her departure against her father and grandfather s wishes had supposedly been the centre of much gossip in India 11 She arrived in London on the SS Kaisar I Hind on 15 November 1935 giving her forwarding address as Westbourne Street W2 12 a In London her mother initially furious over the incident ultimately helped her enroll at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and enlisted the help of Walter Pidgeon who provided the letter introducing her to Alexander Korda who reluctantly intervened 10 14 For a brief period she worked at London Films with Korda who intended to launch her career in films after Merle Oberon 3 She played several extra roles learnt to walk like a model and how to do Western make up 15 She appeared on stage for the first time in 1938 when she played the role of a Turkish slave girl in a play about Keats Byron and Shelley The Heart was not Burned at the Gate Theatre 11 16 b She subsequently had a role in the children s theatrical piece Let s Pretend 11 Her sisters were reported to visit her in London and the three were popular socialites of the 1930s 18 In addition sometime in the 1930s she also featured in Vogue 19 nbsp Indira Devi with her mother and two sisters 1 nbsp Indira Devi centre with her sisters princesses Sushila left and Ourmilla right 1935 1 nbsp Indira Devi mid 1930s Kinsey Studios Delhi 1 nbsp Indira Devi likely mid 1930s Hay Wrightson Ltd 20 Second World War edit nbsp Indira Devi at the BBC December 1942 21 At the onset of the Second World War Devi sat and passed the St John Ambulance first aid examination and subsequently transported casualties during the Blitz 3 22 Earlier she had travelled Europe and was in Munich in 1939 at the time of the Munich Crisis 23 For a short while she worked as a censor for the wartime department of postal censorship 8 She joined BBC Radio in 1939 14 At that time she lived at 512a Nell Gwynn House Sloane Avenue Kensington 18 In 1941 she became political correspondent for the India team of the BBC with George Orwell as the talk producer and with the aim at enlisting Indian support for the War 24 Others on the team included Mulk Raj Anand Venu Chitale Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari T S Eliot and E M Forster 24 She appeared regularly on the Home Service and the Eastern Service and became affectionately known as the Radio Princess 25 26 She hosted talks with Indian men in technical training based in the UK and a 30 minute programme called Hello Punjab a programme in Hindustani for the British Indian Army based in the Middle East and the Mediterranean 22 27 From the House of Commons where she was sometimes the only woman in the press gallery 8 she analysed and broadcast weekly reports to India in a programme called The Debate Continues 22 27 With Narayana Menon she hosted the Indian Service musical programmes and was familiar with popular and classical western music 28 In 1943 she was appointed permanently at the Overseas Service Division 25 With regard to the BBC s wartime broadcasts to listeners in India when an initial questionnaire was sent across India asking about who people preferred to listen to Devi was found to be twice as popular as Orwell 29 c BBC producer Trevor Hill later recalled in his memoirs Over the Airwaves that Devi was a very elegant lady in beautifully cut English tweeds and with a beautifully cut Oxford accent to match 31 In India she was noted to have a very good command of English 28 Post war life editIn February 1948 Devi was cleared of a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol in November 1947 but given a fine for dangerous driving found to be due to taking pills containing ephedrine caffeine and phenobarbitone which she mistook for aspirin 32 At the time she resided at Yeoman s Row Chelsea 32 In 1949 when her father became the Maharaja of Kapurthala following the death of her grandfather she was living in Ivinghoe Aston Buckinghamshire 3 4 In 1951 Devi visited Stormont 33 There she reported on the anniversary of the 1921 Northern Ireland general election 34 The following year she visited New York to see the new United Nations Building and report on the International Refugee Organization 35 She left New York on 23 January 1952 on the SS Liberte bound for Plymouth 36 The following month Frances P Bolton had praised her report as clear and concise and included it in her remarks at the House of Representatives 35 In 1953 Devi co directed a musical with Wauna Paul 37 That year the Daily Mirror published a photograph of Devi changing the tyre of a caravan also carrying Paul they were preparing to drive to India 38 In 1962 following her return from India she narrated a film by the explorer Count Vitold de Golish Twilight of the Maharajahs for the BBC in their Adventure series 39 It was delivered alongside her own life having discovered old film footage after recently revisiting her former family palace 40 In 1963 she narrated Disciples of the Sword a film about the Sikhs by Rustom Master in the same series 41 42 She continued to work for the BBC until 1968 25 In later life she moved to Ibiza Spain where she managed a bar 19 She died there in September 1979 3 Selected publications editThe Revenge of the Gods A story of ancient Egypt The Eastern Press London 1928 43 Notes edit Devi s arrival in England is given as 1 January 1935 in The Open University document 3 She had previously visited London at least once when at age two she accompanied her parents from Paris at the onset of World War I 13 Cast with James Mason and Pamela Brown at the Gate Theatre in London not Dublin 17 How accurate the report was is not clear Laurence Brander who was tasked to investigate the impact of the Indian programmes did not gather the data himself and told Orwell that very few Indians listened to the broadcasts 29 30 References editCitations edit a b c d Poddar Abhishek Gaskell Nathaniel Pramod Kumar K G Museum of Art amp Photography Bangalore India 2015 Kapurthala Maharanis women of royal India Ahmedabad Mapin Publishing pp 138 141 ISBN 978 93 85360 06 0 OCLC 932267190 Williams Elaine 2003 1 Memoirs of a rebellious princess pp 1 14 a b c d e f g h Making Britain Discover how South Asians shaped the nation 1870 1950 Indira Devi www open ac uk The Open University Archived from the original on 20 July 2022 Retrieved 20 July 2022 a b The Princess Indira Bucks Advertiser amp Aylesbury News 24 June 1949 p 3 via British Newspaper Archive Williams Elaine 2003 9 Memoirs of a rebellious princess pp 117 129 Williams Elaine 2003 11 Memoirs of a rebellious princess pp 145 159 a b Williams Elaine 2003 14 Memoirs of a rebellious princess p 199 a b c She talks to India Civil amp Military Gazette Lahore 15 October 1944 p 3 Retrieved 17 August 2022 via British Newspaper Archive Tail wagger sergeants Champion Recruiter Bournemouth Weekly Post and Graphic 13 January 1934 p 12 Retrieved 25 July 2022 via British Newspaper Archive a b c d Williams Elaine 2003 15 Memoirs of a rebellious princess pp 205 219 a b c Chambers Colin 2011 4 Between the wars Black and Asian Theatre in Britain a history Abingdon Oxon Routledge pp 83 107 ISBN 978 1 134 21689 5 UK and Ireland incoming passenger lists 1878 1960 The National Archives of the UK Kew Surrey England Board of Trade Commercial and Statistical Department and successors Inwards Passenger Lists Class BT26 Piece 1075 Item 23 1 via ancestry com subscription required Williams Elaine 2003 10 Memoirs of a rebellious princess pp 130 144 a b Collett Nigel 2022 Notes Developing the Heart E M Forster and India City University of Hong Kong Press p 353 ISBN 978 962 937 590 4 Princess as film extra Nottingham Journal 8 April 1938 p 6 Retrieved 25 July 2022 via British Newspaper Archive What other people are doing The Sphere 3 December 1938 p 393 Retrieved 25 July 2022 via British Newspaper Archive Sweeney Kevin 1999 James Mason A Bio bibliography Westport Greenwood Press p 238 ISBN 0 313 28496 2 a b Singh Ranveer 2020 Sikh history on the streets of London The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea PDF Sikh Research Journal 5 1 24 25 a b Princess Indira Devi of Kapurthala Indian women and war BIMCIC p 12 Williams Elaine 2003 Photos Memoirs of a rebellious princess BBC Photo Sales Retrieved 17 August 2022 a b c Webster Wendy 2018 3 The Empire comes to Britain Mixing it Diversity in World War Two Britain Oxford University Press p 114 ISBN 978 0 19 873576 2 BBC Princess Northern Whig 19 June 1951 Retrieved 26 July 2022 via British Newspaper Archive a b Bhatt Arunkumar 2006 9 The Indian experience Psychological Warfare and India New Delhi Lancer Publishers p 251 ISBN 81 7062 133 X a b c Bainbridge Emma Stadtler Florian 2012 10 Calling from London talking to India South Asian networks at the BBC and the case of G V Desani In Susheila Nasta ed India in Britain South Asian Networks and Connections 1858 1950 Basingstoke Hampshire Springer p 176 ISBN 978 0 230 39272 4 Potter Simon J 2022 3 Propaganda and war 1939 1945 This is the BBC Entertaining the Nation Speaking for Britain 1922 2022 Oxford University Press p 99 ISBN 978 0 19 289852 4 a b Kaul Chandrika 2020 12 The meek ass between two burdens The BBC and India during the Second World War In Eliot Simon Wiggam Marc eds Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War National and Transnational Networks London Bloomsbury Publishing p 208 ISBN 978 1 350 10513 3 a b Rodrigues Abha Sharma 1994 George Orwell the BBC and India a critical study University of Edinburgh 85 86 This thesis focuses attention on the two years that George Orwell spent between August 1941 and November 1943 at the Indian Section of the B B C producing propaganda talks for listeners in India and elsewhere a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b Rodrigues Abha Sharma 1994 George Orwell the BBC and India a critical study University of Edinburgh 236 This thesis focuses attention on the two years that George Orwell spent between August 1941 and November 1943 at the Indian Section of the B B C producing propaganda talks for listeners in India and elsewhere a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Orwell George Davison Peter 1998 Davison Peter ed Two Wasted Years 1943 Secker amp Warburg pp 343 344 ISBN 0 436 40409 5 Hill Trevor 2005 3 200Oxford Street with the BBC s Overseas Service Over the Airwaves My Life in Broadcasting 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1962 p 49 Today s Adventure programme Twilight of the Maharajas shows something of the former glories of the princes and couples with this the personal story of Princess Indira of Kapurthala who ran away from her grandfather s court to settle in England A year ago she returned to Kapurthala for the first time since leaving her ancestral home In the palace she discovered half a dozen rusty cans of old film showing the princely life as it was over a generation ago Disciples of the Sword 1963 BFI Archived from the original on 15 August 2022 Retrieved 15 August 2022 BBC Programme Index genome ch bbc co uk Retrieved 15 August 2022 Library Guides Bibliographies for South Asian Studies Pre Independence guides lib uw edu Archived from the original on 24 July 2022 Retrieved 24 July 2022 Bibliography edit Williams Elaine 2003 Maharani Memoirs of a rebellious princess Brinda Maharani of Kapurthala New Delhi Rupa amp Co ISBN 0 595 09428 7 Further reading editSukhjit Singh Frederick Cynthia Meera 2019 Prince Patron and Patriarch Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala India Showcase Roli Books ISBN 9788193860854 Calder Ritchie Dover Cedric Ch ien Hsiao Orwell George 1943 Talking to India George Allen amp Unwin Ltd Williams Elaine 1954 Maharani Memoirs of a rebellious princess Brinda Maharani of Kapurthala Henry Holt ISBN 0 595 09428 7 Singh Sukhjit Frederick Cynthia Meera 2019 Kumar K G Pramod ed Prince Patron and Patriarch Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala Roli Books ISBN 978 81 938608 5 4 External links edit nbsp Media related to Indira Devi of Kapurthala at Wikimedia Commons Portraits of Indira Devi of Kapurthala at the National Portrait Gallery London nbsp BBC documentary 19 Metre Band Go behind the scenes of Indian programmes on the BBC General Overseas Service later the World Service 1941 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Indira Devi of Kapurthala amp oldid 1179909475, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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