The selection of individuals to narrate their experiences is to give greater credence to the story of how things happened and how it affected different persons. In life stories on the other hand of a particular group, one traces the impact of major social changes by trying to captureĪdivasi Life Stories, Context, Constraint, Choices by Indra Munshi Rawat Publishers, Jaipur/New Delhi, 2007. These are used a great deal in industry and business and media. There are case histories where although oral method is employed, the subject chosen is to illustrate a specific problem as, for instance, impact of an event, or, as an example of how a particular project, or, organisation grew and functioned. It can be on any particular theme it may be on individual groups. There are many ways in which oral history as a technique or method is employed. Usually testimony relates to people who were part of a movement like, for example, We Were Making History, that Stree Shakti Sanghathana of Hyderabad brought out on the narratives of women who were part of the Telangana struggle. His book belongs to the genre of testimony of voices of people who are not heard.
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