Title PARTITION: Tape 79 TAPE 79 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM May 02 08:36 Side A Dr Anusuya DASS (nee Bhagat) 78; brought up in a prosperous Hindu family in Lahore; qualified as a doctor and gynaecologist; came over by air to Delhi in September 1947; set up medical facilities for refugees streaming in to Kingsway area of Delhi - and a pioneer of medical care for the displaced; in mid 70s was principal of Lady Hardinge Medical College; intd at home in Delhi, 1 May 1997 ® > life in Lahore; ad difficultires as 47 progressed 62 - all the other Hs had vacated, but brother refused to move 90 - Ms abducting women in Lahore, 'they used to take away women and use them as slaves' 100 - 'for one month we used to sleep with a pair of good walking shoes, a big stick, and some money tied up', cos of idea that if any problem would vault the wall into a nearby school ground 110 - evacuated in September; women and children went by air to Delhi, after several false starts; not allowed to take any luggage at all; eventually travelled in a Dakota 163 - [in Delhi] 'I saw all these refugees coming, there was Kingsway lines [other names] ... I told my sister if you can give me an old rickety table and a chair on which I can sit, I'll just sit on th side of the road, and at least I can see these people, they had huge big sores ... many had been for days on the road ... that's where I got into the refugees' 182 - 'some of them had been 20/15 days on the road ... they came from all over w Punjab ... everybody had a sob story to tell' 193 - first it was a trickle, then peopl didn't know where to go; but then as news spread, it became a flood; I had been there only two weeks ago; there was this ... assn which was to give refugee relief ... [Sucheta Kripalani] sd we will give you a small honorarium if you will est'sh the refugee relief; ... so we went round and got hold of one of the barracks ... and the first thing to do was est'sh a dispensary' 200 - 'they started collecting donations [of equipment] ...'; worked according to army field manual; 'cos act there were snakes and scorpions and all, tall grass, it took time for them to clear it; ...' 226 - 'there was a big barrack ... all we gave them was 8ft by 8 ft for each family, husband, wife, children, and they wd hang their torn sheets and blankets and things like that ... and then we were dist'g rations; when winter was coming we were giving them these quilts; that took care of the basics' 236 recruited more doctors 243 then we found that so many women were pregnant, the next thing we did, I sd we had to establish a women's