Indian sound recordings bring history to life (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

3 November 2010

Indian sound recordings bring history to life

By Mark Dummett
BBC News, Delhi

A collection of Indian sound recordings from the early 20th Century,
which has never been made public before, has been put online and is
available to download free.

The recordings were made by British colonial officers as part of a
massive effort to study hundreds of different languages and dialects
spoken in Britain's Indian Empire, which in those days stretched from
the frontier with Afghanistan all the way into Burma.

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