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Sarla AGNIHOTRI (nee Joshi) - Hindu brahmin, husband officer
of irrigation works in w Punjab; walked to safety in Sept 47 -
interviewed at home in Chandigarh, 17 Mar 47
530 - trapped in a canal colony, and rescued by Dogra soldiers
537 - M tehsildar had given protection
540 - 'walking for two days' then got some buses; convoy took
seven miles to cross S'ki; stopped at S'ki 'to let
the M kavla cross ... we had to stop there, sit in the
rain, adn there was a lot of apprehension that viol
will come'
544 - slept on wet ground as M convoy passed, peacefully
560 - 'I was walking - 20 miles on one day and 20 on next
day ... it was v tiring ... there were only ve few
men [ie soldiers] and the kafla was so long'
Side B
7 - landlords in convoy 'they had their bullock carts, and
they had loaded what they cd, and they were wearing 6
or 4 suits, one on top of the other ... '
16 - Dogra soldiers asked convoy to stop before entreing
village; 'there were men lying dead in the vill itself,
I have seen horses with the man lying dead on the back'
31 - 'the very people in the convoy, they weren't helpful ...
nobody wd lend you a piece of sugar, and it was
raining so heavily ... and the fires burning every
third km ... it was a terr experience for me, but there
was no alternative
79 - anecdote re kidnapped M man - eventually released
92 - 'both sides suffered, not only we ... I had all the symp
with those people, cos those were innocent people'
100 - [M convoy] 'they were almost like us', but had more
stuff and cd even cook chapattis on their way, 'we
didn't have anything to eat'
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Somnath AGNIHOTRI - Hindu, husband of above; part of same convoy
in Sept 47; interviewed at his home in Chandigarh on 17 Mar 97
130 - first posting, at ? Dipalpur [stayed there, even tho opted
for India, cos no one came to relieve him]
152 - convoy, farmers and big farmers 'they were on horses, and
with rifles, and when they saw M people coming from the
other side, they asked the kafla people to stop, and
asked the ladies and children to go to one side, then
they will be ready to shoot the M people coming'
164 - kafla seven miles long, took 12 hours at S'ki for M
kafla to pass, stopped on Pak side, cos M kafla coming
from India
174 - [re army escort] 'these Dogra people, they will go to |
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