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[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/audio.html Oral History Collection].  The interviews are  available  to listen to, or a transcript may be read.  Read this Times On Line [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece article] dated 7 December 2009 about the collection of oral histories and home videos
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The [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/archome.html page detailing the archives collections] has links to both audio and film collections.  
 
 
There are also collections of [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/overview.html papers and memoirs], part of the South Asian Archives
 
 
 
The Centre holds a sizable archive of films - approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage. Most of the material held is 16mm or 8mm home movies, taken between 1911 and 1956, which give a unique perspective of life in South Asia towards the end of the British Empire and in the first years of independence. Read more about the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/films.html Film  Archive] which may be viewed online.
 
 
 
[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010110101  The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees fleeing Burma in 1942 by Gyles Mackrell, an Assam tea planter.  He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip.  
 
  
 
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The page detailing the archives collections has links to both audio and film collections.