A previous programme, The Long March of Sitarama Pande , dramatised the autobiography of the Unknown Indian Soldier - a sepoy who joined the army of the East India Company in 1812 and was pensioned as an officer under Queen Victoria in 1861. This programme gives his considered views on the British in India as he knew them. with Garard Green as Sitarama Pande
Music for sitar, tabla, and tanpura played on record by NIKHIL BANERJEE , KANAI DUTT , and VIRAM JASANI
Adapted from the book From Sepoy to Subedar (from which the illustration is taken) and produced by MICHAEL MASON
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