Gandhi Vanita ashram in Jalandhar - set up after partition, apparently on the site of a Muslim graveyards from which the bodies were cleared. Many hundreds of widows, rescued women and orphans came here. Some still here after 50 years - including one woman brough as an orphanned baby. Still an orphannage and a sewing workshop. Govt run, well laid out and well kept in spacious grounds. Savindra TRIVEDI - small, dynamic old woman, says aged 100 +, but supervisor says ashram records suggest 82; short rather disshevelled hair; brahmin by birth; well under five feet; says was involevd in setting up ashram and has been ther ever since; a freedom fighter who rebelled against her British-oriented barrister father, and volunteers the fact that she did not light his funeral pyre; large photos of Indira G and Rajiv G on the walls of her small room; outside a small but colourful and well kept garden which she tends herself; Gandhian - says a cousin of Chandrashekhar Azaad starts towards end of side (at 510) IN HINDI 6 - at partition time had one son, who the british killed; I was in Naini jail 12 - lots of women came [here to theshram]; lots; those whose hands and legs were broken, whose husbands had died, whose sons had died; their state was v tragic; they were looked after here; there used to be a centre here and a hospital; I worked in the hospital for 22 yrs for free 15 - more than 1,000/2,000 women ... their children studied did well; some became doctors, colonels, did well 22 - I came to know these women when I came here; some of them were rescued from M homes 26 - they used to say - our husband was killed, our son was killed; some left their little children and wd go back to get them ... when the H girls were pulled out of M homes, they sd we don't want to go, we will live in our co and our comm'y [meaning not clear] ... some we forcibly removed from their homes; Parachan [?] was the sub-insp here and we used to focibly pull out these girls from the homes [?? M homes] ... we pulled a lot of girls out of Lahore ... some of them used to say now we are Ms we will stay here [ie Lahore], but the sardar girls used to say they wanted to stay in the ashram, whatever had happened had happened 39 - some of these women went on to be educated, and became graduates to c42 Side B 17 - [inconsequential] 36 - there are many stories, some v tragic, don't ask, you know what disgusting things happened to these girls, but they came her and forgot it, and some went on to get degrees, some did IAS/IPS, they became someone and left this place 45 - it's like if you go to yr auntie's hse, and yr auntie attacks you ... the same happened to the girls 55 - those who had one or two chidlren by the Ms, they got attached; there's a woman called Bali here ... she refused to go, she sd: I will stay here ... she was a H girl who converted to Islam, she said I will stay