Company history informed by oral history

Dr. Indira Chowdhury, who has set up the Centre for Public History at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bengaluru was speaking at the annual lecture series on business history instituted by Godrej Archives, in association with Tata Central Archives. Her subject was 'Oral History and the Framing of Institutional Narratives' and the oral history example showed the sort of small, but telling detail that would probably be left out of an official history, which would be more concerned with leading personalities, administrative changes and the concrete facts about creation of campuses. For full story click here.