Letter from D.N Jadhav to the University, Bristol 24/7 1998

To - The Registrar

Bristol University,

UNITED KINGDOM

Sir,

I am bothering you about a very old matter with which your University was concerned. I come from a village called Pusegaon, Taluka Khatav, District Satara, Maharashtra State, India. The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Fergusson Road, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune (Old Poona) Maharashtra State, India suggested this village for study of village life by a group of six students from Bristol University, U.K. Accordingly, six students including one doctor couple had come by their own vehicle all the way from U.K. and spent some six months at Satara, Maharashtra State, India visiting village Pusegaon and photographing and studying its life during that entire period. This was sometime in the year 1960 or around that time. The team of students had created a lot of good-will and friendship in the village at that time. I was then a High School going student. I too distinctly recollect the period under consideration.

Nothing is heard about the kind of films or reports which these students had prepared. Village life has undergone a sea-change since then. I am personally interested in seeing the films and the literature of those pre-development stages of the village, when the village was very small, people were mostly agriculturists, and there was no electricity, no tap water etc. I will be immensely obliged if you could send me the literature, cassettes, etc. or guide me suitably to the correct persons so that I can collect the same from them.

I hope you will take the trouble of locating the details of the above visit and of the study of the students from your University and help me in getting the required material, which I need out of sheer curiosity about the same.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

(D. N. Jadhav)....

The Registrar located Tony Morrison via the Alumni register and he immediately despatched to India copies of the General Report of the expedition , a video of the film work, photos and other memorabilia. It was the beginning of an ongoing exchange of information and a lasting friendship now maintained on behalf of the team by Peter Krinks , Tony and Roger Tutt.