Interview with Tahira Minhaj Servaes, January 4, 2008
Project: Partition's First Generation Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Tahira Servaes, a former professor living in Lahore, begins the interview by recalling her childhood in India. Topics of conversation include: her father, siblings, and move to Pakistan as a young adult. Next, Servaes describes her move to Boston in order to obtain a PhD in physics. Social aspects of the move are also considered. Then, the interviewee's time at Aligarh Muslim University Women's College is explored. Servaes and her religious and educational upbringings are highlighted. The interviewee also revisits her move to Pakistan in detail, including her university there, and what Lahore was like immediately after the partition. Following this, Servaes explores the subject of her personal national identity. To conclude, the interviewer provides an overview of her familial connections to India and Saudi Arabia.Interview Accession
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Servaes, Tahira Minhaj Interview by Amber Abbas. 04 Jan. 2008. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Servaes, T.M. (2008, January 04). Interview by A. Abbas. Partition's First Generation Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Servaes, Tahira Minhaj, interview by Amber Abbas. January 04, 2008, Partition's First Generation Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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