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Newspaper clipping from Free Press Journal, interview with P.R.S. Mani and family, [1958?]
No full textNewspaper clipping from Free Press Journal (Spotlight section), titled Indian Diplomat. Interview with P.R.S. Mani and family, on Mani’s return from West Germany posting (1955-58) for brief visit to India. Includes photograph “Shri P.R.S. Mani with wife and children”. Gives significant assessment by Mani of his career in Indonesia when he remembers he was ‘credited with scooping one of the best stories of our time’, i.e. the rice trade agreement and ultimate fulfilment
Publication Story of Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1950, (annotated by P.R.S. Mani), 1986
No full textPublication titled Story of Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1950. Digitised copy annotated by P.R.S. Mani in preparation for corrected republication which did not occur
Letter and cables to P.R.S. Mani from S. Sadanand (Editor, Free Press Journal), 1946
No full textLetters and cables contain correspondence between Mr S. Sadanand (editor and founder of Free Press Journal), and P.R.S. Mani. Contents relate to articles written by P.R.S. Mani and Free Press Journal editorial policy, particularly in relation to identifying authors (with bylines as was then the American practice – Sadanand refuses Mani’s request for such identification) and to setting up a consolidated news office in Singapore. Mani is confirmed as FPJ correspondent for Malaya and Singapore.
1 Apr 46: Approval of Mani’s initial information on rice offer.
Five cables (unspecified dates) Sadanand to Mani: requesting confirmation of rice offer. Convey’s Nehru’s request for Mani to locate Indian Major in British Army, Inderjit Singh, missing believed killed 25 October 1945. Sadanand asks Mani to organize PM Sjahrir to make direct official statement to confirm rice offer either to Indian Government (ie British) or to Mani himself.
11 May 46: praise for Mani’s rice negotiations and scoop but refusal of Mani’s request for byline identification of himself as author. ‘Unacknowledging names of correspondents part of our cardinal policy’.
1 Aug 1946, Sadanand to Mani via Singapore Office, re organization and setting up of new Singapore office.</p
Letter to P.R.S. Mani from Jawaharlal Nehru, 17 Jun 1946
No full textLetter to P.R.S. Mani from Jawaharlal Nehru, 17 Jun 1946. Contents refer to free gift of cloth to Indonesia.
Brief but important letter from Jawaharlal Nehru to Mani, in response to letter from Mani, probably outlining rice offer. Indicates how rice transfer was to be carried out. Nehru congratulates Mani on good work. Then details connections he hopes Mani will make to bring people together or to locate missing people.
Textiles were offered to Indonesia as a free gift by Bombay merchants (who were sympathisers to Congress.
Refers to a Mr Punjabi (Sindhi). This may have been the textile merchant in Surabaya, and an associate of T.D. Kundan (1911-1980). In 1946 one of the Punjabi families had temporarily returned to Hyderabad.</p
Supplement document to job application to Indian Foreign Service from P.R.S. Mani, [1947?]
No full textDocument titled Mr P.R.S. Mani, 24. Additional Remarks, annotated “Supplement to application for job in IFS” (Indian Foreign Service). This is significant because it is a valuable account of Mani’s perceptions of his career to that point. After his role as a Foreign Correspondent with the Free Press Journal, Mani had become Press Attaché to the Indian Consulate from October 1947 and then moved into a more formal representative role as Consul in Jogjakarta in 1949. After various postings to Goa, Ceylon, the Philippines and Malaysia he became Indian Ambassador to Sweden, retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 1973. See Series 26.1 and 26.2. Madra
Letter to P.R.S. Mani, from P. Subbarayan (Ambassador for India to Indonesia), 1951, in response to an earlier letter from Mani to Subbarayan.
No full textLetter to P.R.S. Mani, from P. Subbarayan (Ambassador for India to Indonesia), 29 Mar 1951, concerning Mani’s departure from the Indian Foreign Service, a year after Mani had returned to India. Mani had been Press attaché to the Indian Consulate from 1947 to 1949 and then became the accredited representative of the Indian Government in Indonesia until his departure in January 1950. See Series 26
Document from British Headquarters, Allied Forces Netherlands East Indies, approving P.R.S. Mani for Public Relations duties in Java, 1946
No full textBrief document is a British Army pass for P.R.S. Mani as Free Press of India foreign correspondent, to travel to the ‘interior’ of Java. Note signature “[Laurens] van der Post, GSI British HQ”. Note that Post was Lt Colonel in British Army but was an Afrikaner of Dutch descent. This must have raised questions in the Indonesian climate of deep suspicion that the British were not only supporting the Dutch but bringing in Dutch troops under cover of their own. Note also the use of the term ‘Public Relations’ in this British Army document to describe independent journalism. Finally, note the concept of ‘interior’ as applying to ALL of Java outside Batavia which is where the British HQ was located
Letter of condolence to P.R.S. Mani’s sister, Girija Karthikeyan, from Ranjan Mathai, Indian Foreign Secretary, 2011
No full textLetter of condolence to Smt. Girija Karthikeyan (sister of P.R.S. Mani), from Ranjan Mathai, on behalf of the Indian Foreign Service regarding Mani’s passing, dated 3 September 2011
Miscellaneous photographs, [between 1944 – 1951]
No full textSix photographs of P.R.S. Mani and others, including: young portrait of Mani; Mani with car and Maharaja; Mani presenting credentials to Soekarno; Mani in role as diplomat. Photographer unknown
P.R.S. Mani, The story of Indonesian revolution, 1945-1950
No full textLombard Denys. P.R.S. Mani, The story of Indonesian revolution, 1945-1950. In: Archipel, volume 44, 1992. pp. 217-218
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