PARTITION: Tape 54 TAPE 54 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM Mar 30 10:20 Side A Mahmudabad recordings continued Najmul Hassan continued 6 > no one from own family went to Pak 19 - was servant of Raja, and took me to Delhi before partition, he was a good person 36 - Congress/ML situation then 42 - didn't like idea of Pak and ML, preferred Cong ... 62 - was Raja's driver, went with him to many places; initially ML not for Pak 78 - when ML annd for Pak, there was divn ofn opinion - some in favour thinking more prosperity in Pak 90 - their hopes not fufilled 100 - there was divn in almost every family and one brother went and one didn't, even the brother of the Raja sahib did not go to Pak [want more detailed translation] 114 - many families went to Pak, those who remained found there was no employ't ... 136 - Ms did not benefit by the creation of Pak ... 150 - reminiscences of old Raja: a very simple living person, often talked about 175 - not tall, but had loud voice 188 - saw Jinnah in Delhi, but now realise that what he created is a farce 202 > Jinnah and Raja 217 - aftr Raja left, nobody took care of us Ammar Rizvi - Muslim, and Congress MLA for area; former state minister; cultured; ancestral home in M'bad - also homes in Lucknow and Delhi, and goes to London once a year; has a personal feud with the Raja - but behaves very much like a Raja himself, benefitting from the same sense of deference, and serving as a benefactor to the community; 60-ish, sophjisticated, modern, with excellent English; went with him to a Holi milan, where I was asked to speak in Hindi; travelled alongside him thro M'ad by car as he waved graciously amd regally to shopkeepers and bystanders 225 - 'M'bad contrd v much aws far as ML is concerned; here many people joined ML, many people migrated to Pak. and many ... preferred to stay in India; ... I think 30% of Ms migrated to Pak' 234 - 'the l'lod of this area was a M, and he joined ML, and most of people were in his service; while the states were there they were prosperous ... but after aboln of zamindari ... these people had no emply't ... and they were not educated ... so most people preferred to migrate to Pak to presevre their livelihood' 248 - now people more prosperous than pre-partition 255 - 'those people who stayed here ... they are happy to be in I; there was this prop at the time of partition that all Ms who stayed ... ed be convered to Hinduism ... they have found that nothing of that kind had happ'd ... you'll be surprised to know that in this small area, we have 14 mosques; every mosque relayed its azaan on 1'speakers'