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Ep 167: India's Greatest Civil Servant

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Are the Types of Primary Sources?

V p was a very, very fiercely private man. I hit several road blocks because he was not some who was an eloquent diarist or an eloquent letter writer. There are letters that have been left, few and far between. One or two letters have survived that were left to his brother, to whom he was extremely close. Apart from that, i also had to go through the professional papers of nearly every one who was involved in the transfer of pa,. saw baten, neru krishna menan, the sadar patal correspondence. So these, to me, were also huge insight into how this man was thinking.

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