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PARTITION: Tape 43
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255MODEM
Mod Date & Time
255MODEM Mar 16 12:01
TAPE 43
Side A
Group-Captain A.C. JOLLY; Hindu - interviewed at
his home in Chandigarh, 15 March 1997
5 - grew up in village of Dakha nr Ludhiana, mix of Jat Sikhs
Hs, and Ms; 10% Ms, 20% Hs, 65% Ss, 5% SCs
20 - 'the tension started imm after the news came that a lot
of Hs and Ss had been killed in Pak; the trains had been
mass'd; the vill was full of tension, and the villagers
told the Ms you'd better leave the place ...'
31 - word reached thro 'vernacular, press, Urdu papers ... they
used to come daily from Lahore; they were spreading a
lot of word around'
45 - in vill 'till about 45 reins were abs cordial; the Ms were
mainly oil-crushers ... and persons who made cotton
cloth; the other comms were dependent on them and they
were dependent on other comms'
61 - political tensions from late 46 after Unionist govt fell;
lot of rumours spreading; no ML're came to village
76 - 'tension built up so much, the maj comm villagers, told
the Ms, you'd better pack up, we'll drop you in the
camp; they took them in the camp, I ws not in the vill
that time - I'd gone to Ambala, but when we came back
we leant from the other villagers that the goonda
elements in the vill of the majo comm ... Ss and Hs
all, they took them to the jungle which was between the#
two villages and killed the whole lot ... all the Ms
who were present at that time ... must be 100 or so ...
men, women and children'
100 - 'we were horrified you cd do this to the people who'd
grown up together, who'd played with us in our ch'hood
but one couldn't say anything, you'd get a retort from
people, look you've gone and seen the train that came
full of dead bodies ...'
113 - 'motive was mainly to loot the people, there was no other
motive, whatever possessions they had was plundered'
120 - all land in village owned by Sikhs
127 - 'most of the attackers were those who had dropped out of
school who were good for nothing as the m'c people
thought ... the real attackers were not from the normal
community'
137 - today no Ms in that vill, 'no Ms at all'
148 - Ms houses taken over by govt as evacuee property
154 - Ms out of village on day of attack 'ran away to Pak';
'people who were well to do ... they never came back to
vill; it was lower m/c and poor people who were the
target of this massacre'
162 - had been no mosque in village
166 - maj of attackers Jat Ss
169 - communities had 'same language, same living, except thart
Ms and Hs never ate together, they ahd sep kitchens, sep
eating habits; most of the Hs were veg, and most of the
Ms were mixed veg and non-veg'
178 - wd not eat with Ms in the village; but had Ms friends in
upper strata who wd eat with
185 > recollections of visiting Lyallpuir before partition |
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