Writer Mod Date & Time PARTITION: Tape 37 255MODEM 255MODEM Mar 08 09:55 Side B (further cont) INAYATULLAH (KARROO) interviewed at his home in Baramulla on 8 March 1997 - a colleague asks that he be identified only as 'Inayatullah'; aged 76 businessman and onetime Muslim Conference activist; now owns a cinema in Baramulla (closed), a hotel in Srinagar (closed), a petrol station and other proeprties; has a son and daughter in the U.S., and a daughter still in Kashmir; in poor health; when I interviewed him, he was lying on a bed on his living room floor; he travelled into Baramulla in ? Oct 47 with some of the raiders from Pakistan, but says this was by accident; he had been in Lahore trying to get film to show in his cinema, and got a lift back with them; as a result after the defeat of the raiders he was jailed for four months in solitary; next jailed in 1953 along with his adversary, Sheikh Abdullah; jailed four more times - including twice by Indian army on suspicion of being an informer for Pakistan as of ten years back, renounced his religion, saying in chat: "I have no politics now, no religion now ... All religions are the cause only of war. ... I do not pray, and I do not have a beard" once very prominent in Baramulla Kashmir 1: side B from 345 347 - attended ML conf in Lahore in 1940, as happened to be in the city; 'I was by chance there and I attended the session' 355 > negative assessment of Jinnah; 'I remember old senior leaders saying, it was not the partition of India, it was the partition of the Muslims' 370 - 'tho in the beginning I was myself feeling that the partition of India was good, Ms will get their own motherland, but unf nobody thought what will be the consequences ... my feeling is ... that partn was not in the interests of the Ms of I; if I had not been partitioned, there wd have been neither this conflict over K, nor Bangladesh'; Muslims suffered more killings while Hindus lost more property 385 - 'Ms who were given the impression by the ML that they will create heaven, which didn't happen' CONTINUED