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PARTITION: Tape 37
Writer
255MODEM
Mod Date & Time
255MODEM Mar 07 13:47
TAPE 37
Side A
Wildtrack - rRecorded at Jama Masjid, Srinagar, main Friday
prayers, 7 March 1997; perhaps 2,000 present - the youthful
Mirwaiz, Umar Farooq (seated slightly above the congregation,
wearing a near-white Kashmiri cap, and then after the prayers,
going down to make a political speech) leading the prayers
The Jama Masjid is an imposing building, courtyarded, with
massive, stout wooden pillars, a central area, and then three of
the very distinctive Kashmiri mssque towers; has for long also
been a political rallying point. The Mirwaiz's address contains
words like 'Hindustan', 'BSF', 'Azaadi' and 'Hurriyat'
0 > (in distance) Mirwaiz and responses - quite lively;
ref to Sheikh Nooruddin; then sung prayers - mystical
[indicative of very distinct form of Kashmiri Islam]
41 > very much as before - no better
56 > slightly better sung prayers and responses
63 > more prayers and responses, less in the distance
80 > lively responses [but probably not as atmospheric as
those first recorded]
92 > best cries and responses **
110 > and more of the same
115 > less good responses
132 > OK chants
164 > more political priest/congregation chants
174 > Mirwaiz's politcal speech
180 > more of the same, more animated
204 > prayers recorded from loudspeaker outside [not led
by the Mirwaiz]
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