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' to 128 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