At Gopalpur Haradum ? MAJUMDAR - local Hindu, says aged about 78,distinguished with glasses, had shown us around the old mandir in the nearby small town destroyed after demolition of Babri Masjid; interviewed in a sprwaling, dilapidated former zamindar's house; two cousins' families live there modestly (one of younger men studying engineering in Paris and just about to bring over his wife and baby daughter, Puja); Muslim family have moved into other part of house, holding false papers; puja platfiorm destroyed years ago, but idol of Saraswati present in Cal on Direct Action Day - BENGALI, 20/4/97 2IE > present at mtg; saw Shurwardy on stage and beside hinm was Sheikh Mujib ur Rehman, a student then; that direct action day started all thr riots - the next day riots began in Cal ... 23C > S'dy didn't saying anything diretcly like go and attack Hs as far as I remember; but this was something they were discussing in the mosques ... and they brought in trucks full of musclemen in Bihar ... and the next day we sam them roaming round Cal streets with daggers in their hands ... (and anecdote to S'dy in police HQs); the first day and second day the Ms went on rampaging, killing, looting, and on the second day the Hs also started resisting it and joined in 267 > they were common H people; they had to resist to save their own lives cos the govt was ML and wasn't doing anything ... then afterwards Gandhi came and the mil were deployed, and things were controlled 283 > I didn't do anything during the riots, but afterwards when Hs from E Bengal started to arrive in Cal, there was an assn of people from N'li in Cal, and they asked me to rescue these people from Sealdah stn and send them to relief centres 298 > when I used to go to resce these people, in the stn wd be Pesh Pubnj and Bih goondas, they wd try to identify Hs coming from E Bengal and try to stab them or kill them, so to resist that I had to organsie a gp of goondas myself whenver I organised such an operation 312 > [refugees] they had nothing nut the clothes they had on, no food, ... people were flocking in and they had nothing but the clothes they were wearing; they were out of their minds, they couldn't say anything, couldn't describe anything, they were awestruck, they had lost so many people and all their life's belongings 322 > the people wee all taken to diff't refugee camps estd by the govt ... many of them stayed in these camps for 4,5,6, years 344 > riot began v early in morning of 16 August from Sealdah station, the procession began there, and from there via Harrison Rd, Lowr Circ Rd, Mirzapur Rd; on the way they were stabbing Hs and looting things and everything and I was in Bow Bazaar, living there, and we sudd saw this proc's coming, and we saw people trying to run for their lives, and you cd hear nothing by Allah Akbar and Bande Mataram