Title PARTITION: Tape 70 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time St 255MODEM May 01 07:02 R* TAPE 70 Side B Lyla MURSHED born 7 Nov 1925, in Calcutta; from a nationalist Muslim family; father, Zakaria, was a mayor of Calcutta, a very staunch Indian nationalist, and a friend of Bose; uncle was Faizlal Haq; husband came over to e Pak in 1951; her son, visiting, teaches European evonomies at Bradford University - at her home in Dhaka, 22 April 1997 322 - (nat'st Muslims) 'in a way they were betrayed ... e/thing was done and decided in a gt hurry; the ms deserved much more regarding land ... they were cheated ... by both the Congress and the ML'rs, and the person who cd have changed this was the British' 346 - [identity as a child] 'Indian first, then a Muslim ... I was a Bengali, I still feel I'm an Indian, I belong to the sub-continent of India, and of course I'm a bengali, I was born in B, my mother tongue is B'i, but I am an India, I belong to the sub-con of India' 358 - [in Dhaka] 'in the beg I felt a little homesick, I never felt I was living in exile ... and the social life was good here ... I missed the lifestyle of Calcutta ... but gradually I got used to it' 365 - [partn of Bengal absurd] 'absurd, terribly absurd; when we go to Cal ususally we fly, but there have been times when we have crossed the border; and when we see the artificial border, the no man's land, the people on one side and the people on the other side, they look alike, they speak the same language, the dress alike, the eat the same food, I don't seem to understand why this was necessary ... this pressure cd have been avoided; we cd have lived in peace in Bengal ... i sd say it's a tragedy' **** 382 - 'we are the same we are not difft ... religion is something private; like loving yr son or loving yr husband you worship yr God in your own way ... why make a display, why make it an issue, religion' to 392 - ENDS