By; Dpt; *** Ext; **** Rdy; 00:00 blurb Jun 05 11:08 Title; PARTITION: Tape 83 Dur'n: 15:11 Lang: R* TAPE 83 SHEILA SEN GUPTA (interviewed for second time; at my home in Delhi, 1st April 1998: first on tape 74) was involved in relief work among women in the aftermath of Noakhali in 46, and later with Mridula Sarabhai in Delhi niece of Subhas Bose, and sister of Pradeep Bose (her father was Suresh Chandra Bose); her sister-in-law, Suraiya Hassan from Hyderabad, also involved in relief work among women intends to write a book Side A 5 > (memories of Gt Calcutta Killing) at 10.30, lorryloads of Muslims passed the house, shouting slogans; after 12.30, truckloads of Sikhs coming in, 'each truck stopping at our gate, and they were coming inside the house, coming upstairs, to my uncle's room [ie Netaji] and there was a picture of his, and they were saying that whatever your dreams were, it is not fulfilled, but we are going to retaliate now; they were making a pledge, sort of thing, in front of my uncle Subhas Bose's picture' 39 - reports of Ms killing Hs, then heard of a spot where water was turned absolutely red; after 3 o'clock, the death toll was more Ms than Hs [mistakenly gives date as 15th August, and says CM was Dr B.C. Ray] 58 - 'the next morning we became volunteers, and we started going door-to-door collecting rice and clothes ... there used to be convoys organised UCRW, United Councils of Relief and Welfare; we used to go, 50/60 trucks, go to the pockets, get Hs from M pocket, and Ms from H pocket, things like that' 81 - 'one thing I must say that during this period there were no abductions at all, atrocities of course, but no abduction at all ... during those 10/12 days, no abduction and no rape [cf Punjab and Noakhali] ... cos their mind was fixed to kill them, and one thing I will say in Bengal, they respect women much more than any other place, not like Punjab; they wd think 1,001 times to rape a woman in Bengal; that's my feeling; I may be wrong, but that's my feeling' NOAKHALI 100 - 'trainloads of women and children were coming from Noakhali to Calcutta; there we found they were raped, menfolk were all slaughtered, some of them became pregnant, ... I was a v young person, rape and this and that, I didn't know much about it ... the Cal riot, there was no rape, that much I can tell you' 114 - contrasts Hindu and Muslim outlook on women 123 - 'Noak dialect absolutely different from the dialect we speak, so they couldn't u'stand what we were