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Wildtrack and interviews (all in Punjabi) recorded in Husseinpura
and Shariffpura, two areas of Amritsar once overwhelmingly Muslim
but now with no Muslims at all; area has a number of mosque
buildings still standing - none in active use (tho one has a mazar
which is still honoured by local people), and two we saw now
gurdwaras; narrow streets and alleyways, crwoded, but not poor;
some of the older buildings have fine wood and plaster work, and a
few have inscriptions in Urdu or Arabic [19/3/97]
10 > vox pop with elderly woman from W. Punjab: Ram Pyari
15 > came from Mandi ? Bhavani, and heard of Dinga killings
40 > story of settling in
87 > stories of massacres, seen lining up people 'and chopping
them off like fodder1, and poisoning of water and veg
114 > came over in Sept 47; had stayed in a camp for few days
147 > children didn;t have water to drink
150 > man helping to translate inscription on building in
Arabic [not useable]
179 > Granthi (priest) at Gol Masjid, a small, round mosque,
simply but very beautiful, now a gurdwara
181 > 'when partn happd this change took place; as many
gurdwaras became mosques on Pak side, this was a
mosque which we've made into a gurdwara'
213 > Granthi reading from Grant Sahib in gurdwara
to 242
243 > 80 year old locak Sikh (former tailor) interviewed in
the gol gurdwara: ? Diyal Singh
255 > 'there was no M here when we arrived ... our vehicle
[train] came and stopped here and we got off and
went into the empty houses'
265 > 'we came on train ... all the people from our area
came on that train ... the train came and stopped at
the railway crossing right straight by and we got off,
and came here, the houses were empty, and we got
straight in'
295 > visited by M freinds from Sheikhurpura, but not aware
of Amritsar Ms returning [[tho others say they did
come back in the early days]]
307 > 'we have not defiled the mosque, in fact we've given it
a lot of respect, in fact we come and prostrate
ourselves here ... I don't think we have defiled the
mosque'
321 > (ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WD HAVE BEEN THOUS OF Ms LIVING
IN H'PURA ... HOW MANY ARE THERE TODAY) 'Not a single
Muslim ... There's no M that lives here ... in the whole
area'
347 > Hindu, Bhola ? Nath, 6/7 at time of partition, interviewed
in mazar
350 > (speaking in Hindi: says riots mainly in H-M areas, cos
this had been exclusivly a M area the houses had not been
damaged so the incomers cd move straight in)
,360 > elderly woman, not keen to talk
365 > street wildtrack
380 > small shopkeeper: Karnail Singh
390 > how he ^fjot local houses
405 > 'when we came here there was not a single M, after |
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