Mohammed Jan video interview

00:00 Gives name with variations and how it settled as Mohammed Jan.

00:40 Screen title: “Work” Working as a teacher, gives locations employed, taking a test to continue being a teacher, frustration with the system, leaving teaching profession and joining the Azad Kashmir Regular Forces (AKRF).

03:52 Screen title: “AKRF (Azad Kashmir Regular Forces” Signing up for the AKRF, medical examination, places he was stationed for training and beyond, being discharged.

06:38 Going to Mirpur and applying to work for the WAPDA (Water and Power Development Authority of Pakistan), being refused a job although scored well in tests due to living at the hotel which was also the base for the anti-Mangla Dam movement. Getting a job in an office sorting compensation to those affected by the Dam.

10:11 Screen title: “Oldest memory” Oldest memory of being carried by his grandmother to her house at about age 4-5.

11:12 Screen title: “Education” Education at school, walking to school, remembers teachers and other students. School was large as it had a large catchment area. Mentions Partition (1947) and those fleeing to Mirpur taking over large houses of others who had fled.

15:15 Screen title: “Games” Games played as a child including harkani and kabbadi.

16:15 Screen title: “College” Attending college, remembering teachers who taught there and what they were like to the students.

18:41 Screen title: “Curriculum (pre 1947)” School curriculum (pre-1947) based on the state including the province of Jammu and province of Kashmir (history, geography etc). Two histories taught, Indian history and English history.

20:05 Salt smuggling for cattle stealing – a kind of exchange across the [border] to avoid taxes. Restrictions on wood cutting tells of an incident when an Uncle brought wood to the house.