PARTITION: Tape 12 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM Jan 19 07:22 TAPE 12 Side A SHANTANU RAY tel: Delhi 463 1861; interviewed, Delhi 5 July 1996, by Anuradha Awasthi - brother of S.S. Ray; from a very well connected Congress family in Calcutta, and grandson of Chittaranjan Das [first Mayor of Calcutta]; in Calcutta in August 1946; family originally from E Bengal [note: Jinnah did not come to Calcutta on 14 August 1946] 6 - 'terrible riots took place in Cal; I remember Jinnah coming to Cal on 14th August [?????], he gave a very inflammatory speech which created a lot of problems and the cry of Allah Akbar ... was all over Cal, and people went on a rampage, they started killing, and the Hindus were not far behind, they behaved as disgracefully... and there were a lot of murders ... burning of houses, throwing of babies which I;ve seen with my own eyes from a second floor of a building and killing them, spearing them, all this happened' 29 - 'I was prsonally responsible for saving quite a few Ms, one was a cook ... he was literally quaking with fear when there was this cry of Allah Akbar; a cousin of mine and I put him in the boot of a Studebaker ca and drove him to Free School St, where it ws relatively calms, it was M dominated, and we put him down there ..' 50 - Sikh taxi drivers came to gradnmo's house, ' and my grandmother ws at the top of the stairs saying, well, you kill him, but you kill me first, they went away ...' 60 - grandfather's role in settling Sikhs in Calcutta 69 - was in Presidency College, Cal; fellow student's house in Mayfair attacked by a mob, ' and he telephoned me and he said I'm in great trouble and I went there, picked him up again in the boot of the car ... and I drove off'; this man became a Bangladeshi diplomat 97 - 'I felt bad that Bengalis, Cal people, cd behave like that' 100 - 'Absolute mayhem all over, and this cry of Allah-o- Akbar is v frightening when people are rampaging ...' 104 - Gandhi went on a fast to death if riots didn't stop in Noakhali and Calcutta' grandmother, on Nehru's request, broadcast on AIR, 'she appealed to the people of Ben, saying in Bengali we say that we don't let a dog die in our house, will you let Mahatma Gandhi die in Bengal? It was so touching ... that people came were Gandhi was fasting ... and laid their arms down. And that was the time that it turned' 128 - 'I can remember people, strangers, coming into our locality, he was stripped of his clothes to find out if he was a M, I rememebr this, and if he was not he was siaughtred and thrown on the streets