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PARTITION: Tape 13
Writer
255MODEM
Mod Date & Time
255MODEM Jan 19 07:22
TAPE 13
Side A
SHANTANU RAY - interviewed for a second time in Delhi by Anuradha
Awasti on 5 July 1996 (to secure better technical quality)
[NOTE: Jinnah did not address the Muslim League rally at the
Ochterloney Monument in Calcutta]
Tape 2
23 - 'it was all started when an inflammatory speech by Jinnah
at the Ochterloney monument in Calcutta [???] and
people went wild, renting the air with Allah-o-Akbar
all over the place, and there was a real rampage ...
people started burning buses, trams, burning bldgs
and so on; I think the Hs did the same ... both
sides were at it; and it was v sad for me to see this
happening in Cal'
40 - 'it was only when Nehru came to Cal, Gandhi was fasting
to death after the riots broke out at Noakhali in e
Bengal and then in Cal, S was the CM of Bengal at that
stage ... N went to my g/mother Basunti Devi, wife of
Chittaranjan Das, and asked her to do something ... she
did a broadcast on AIR ... which organised a van to come
... she made a v short statement where she appealed to
people to stop fighting and sd in Ben we do not let a
dog die in out house, will you let M Gandhi die in Ben;
it had a trem effect, and people came to G and
surrendered their arms, and things quietened down'
78 - saving grandather's Muslim cook, attacked in the house,
'he was liteerally shaking ... with my cousin we took
this cook, put him in the boot of the Studebaker car,
and dropped him in Free School Street'
95 - story of fellow student, 'a mob had surrounded the house
and were trying to break in ... we went in, again
put him in the boot of the car, the car verandal was
inside so people cd not see us, ... and drove him to
Free School St .. . '; later a Bangladeshi diplomat
12^ - recollections of people being saved
135 - 'during the night we used to keep vigil by turns in
our area, and with the crty of Allah-o-Akbar coming in
we were v worried and in fact scared; the Br army
came in with the gurkhas ... and some [troublemakers]
were shot'
144 - 'I did see killings myself; I saw children being thrown
out of 2nd floor flats in the houses, and I've seen
people being speared to death, I've seen people being
killed, I've seen ms kill Hs, I've seen Hs kill Ms'
148 - 'in our area where we used to live, any stranger coming
in was derobed, they wanted to find out whether he was
a H or not; if he was not a H he was murdered on the
spot'
153 - 'all these bodies that were killed, whetehr Hs or Ms, they
were dumped on the main road, in fact the crossing of
Russell Rd, and they were lying in a heap and our |
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