Title PARTITION: Tape 74 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM Apr 24 15:32 TAPE 74 Side B Sheila SEN GUPTA - nee Bose; 72; niece of Netaji, and elder sister of Pradip Bose; active with Mridula Sarabhai in helping abducted and retrieved women after partition - going to Delhi to help her in 1950; lives in Delhi; interviewed at the home of her friend Ashoka Gupta in Calcutta - 24/4/97 13 - [wome coming from e Pak] 'they were in tremendous trauma, cos their menfolk were slaghtered, they were raped, and the men just left them and ran away; there were som abduction, we sd not call it abduction, the women wer eloped, they had some r'ship with ... H boys and m girls and they too this opp and they ran away ... ; but when they came her, they came with one clothes, some with some little babies, some pregnant ... we used to give them shelter ... we used to collect clothes ... and there was a relief centre ... and we used to collect funds from local people also' 38 - at that time or within five yrs, not aware of any of these women getting married 45 - Mridula Sarabhai asked her to come to Delhi; in 1950 'I went to Delhi ... i started working woith her ... woth the recovery of abducted women from w Pakistan' 64 - 'we got the list from w Pak, these are the women abducted ... M women ... and we got another listb from I side that there are H girls abducted; ... we had a dual resp, one to recover M women from india, and pressurise the Pak govt to recovr our H women' 92 - 'after 5/6 yrs when she [MS] used to insist that this M girl used to go back, sometimes I used to tell her: why are you pressurising, once sho lost eberything, now she's settled down, having children and husband, she's settled she doesn't want to go: "that is the policy that's not yr thing to decide"; but I felt as a young girl, I felt it is really injustice to a woman, she has just come out from one trauma, settlin down in life with a new family ... but sometimes we have forced them to go back' ** 108 - 'the thing used to be, whole of summer, we used to search and in winter they used to go ... and recover them by force ... in summer, the gp of volunteers, ladies, wd go to some area, we'd get to know that in this area some ML girls are there, so ladies wd go and sit there and say, I want to drink water ... are you all happy, yes we are happy, what about you? ... my husband has abducted a M woman staying with us, then the lady of that are wd say, you know in that hse some M girls, in that hse, this is how we used to get the info' ** 123 - 'I went in Bhogal, Bhogal used to be a big cenrte where