Lionel Caplan interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 18th January 2004,  filmed by Sarah Harrison

Note: initial numbers refer to minutes and seconds,  numbers at end of sections refer to total number of minutes devoted to that subject.

00.0  Early life and McGill University

02:47 Decides to apply to SOAS, introduction to anthropology (4 mins)

4:35  Description of courses/teachers and decision to work on South Asia (3.5 mins)

9:42  Portrait of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf  (5 mins)

15:05  First impressions of Nepal, Kathmandu, going to Ilam  (3 mins)

19:18  Main ideas of thesis (2 mins) and turning it into a book  (4 mins)

23:24  Description of Limbus, discussion of feelings on fieldwork  (4.5 mins)

28:25  Being appoin ted a lecturer at SOAS and teaching (4 mins)

32:04  Second field trip to West Nepal and study of a District Capital (4 mins)

36:40  Descriptions  of colleagues: Adrian Mayer,  Abner Cohen (5 mins)

41:44  Other influences: Manchester School, some historians (3.5 mins)

44:15  Move from Nepal to Madras City South India

46:35  Being married to an anthropologist (2 mins)

48:12  Work on representations  of  Gurkhas (2 mins)

50:00  work on Anglo-Indians (1.5 mins)

51.20  The common thread: to give voice to marginalized