Interview with Ghulam Umar, August 8, 2006
Project: Partition's First Generation Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Ghulam Umar, a former military official for the Pakistani Army, begins the interview by describing his early life in India. Umar's experiences in the Indian Army before the partition and after the partition in the Pakistani Army are detailed. The interviewee's time at university in Aligarh is also highlighted. Umar's thoughts on the Islamic religion are considered as well. Islamic relations between Hindus and within the Islamic sects in the time frame of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as currently, are described. Finally, the effects of the partition of India and Pakistan upon the latter are evaluated.Interview Accession
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Umar, Ghulam Interview by Amber Abbas. 08 Aug. 2006. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Umar, G. (2006, August 08). Interview by A. Abbas. Partition's First Generation Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Umar, Ghulam, interview by Amber Abbas. August 08, 2006, Partition's First Generation Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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