India, My India; Yet Another Harvest

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Title:
India, My India; Yet Another Harvest
Description:
Yavar Abbas is completing his visit to his native India and preparing to return to England where he has spent 17 years of self-imposed exile. Visiting the places of his youth and early manhood, he sees the monument honoring the British soldiers who died fighting in 1873 so the Union Jack could continue to fly over India. Yet, there is another monument - one honoring the Indian martyrs who gave their lives pulling the Union Jack down in the 1947 fight for independence. He visits his sister who was raised with him in a social era of the past. Women has once been solely destined only to be wives, but his sister had in this new generation received her education and is now a university teacher. Although India is now part of the modern industrial revolution, there are still people who engage in crude forms of labor as in the past, ancient rituals still exist, and sacred cows still roam the land. As his visit to his native country nears an end, the people gather "yet another harvest" as they have done for many centuries. And with the gathering of the harvest, there is the Hindu harvest festival - a one-day celebration devoted to forgiving and thanksgiving and a day when all of the cares of the year are forgotten. As he departs his native land, friends and relatives come from many miles to bid farewell. To Abbas it is "truly an Indian farewell to remind me that although my family waited for me in England, a family remained in India." (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) When India gained independence in 1947 and the land was divided into India and Pakistan, Yavar Abbas was disillusioned and left his homeland with his English wife and his infant son to live in England. After 17 years he returns to become reunited with his relatives and friends. This four-part series follows Abbas as he takes a nostalgic look at his past and visits places of his youth and early manhood. In these and other places, he sees something of the old and familiar India and the new independent country. The film won the Marconi Award at the International Film Market in Milan in 1967. India! My India! is a presentation of National Educational Television. The 4 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on film, but were distributed to NET stations in black and white on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Producer:
Weston, William
Producer:
Abbas, Yavar
Director:
Abbas, Yavar
Composer:
Batish, S. D.
Host:
Abbas, Yavar
Date:
June 9, 1968
Format:
Film/Video
Genre:
Documentary
Location:
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
American Archive of Public Broadcasting > India, My India
Subjects:
Economics
Biography
Travel
Extent:
00:30:23
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-057cr5p45w
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Notes:
Episode Number: 4