PARTITION - additional recordings I Afljirew Whitehead I 'I CD-20 D.N. Kaul Bom 1921 - a Kashmiri pandit from Srinagar, Assisrant Suoperintendentn of police iin Srinagar city in 1947 - later Suoperintendent at Baramulla - retired as Director General of the J and K police in 1980. Moved to Delhi in nl990 because of the insurgency - has returned to Srinagar only so sell his property. Published his reminiscences (with a fooreword by Karan Singh) in 1985 I/vd at his home at Mandakini, ND 19 by AW, 29 April 2003 Highlights - durbar when lights failed sense of panic in Srinagar raiders mistook brass teacups for gold saw raiders on top of a truck repeats anti-raider slogans Track 1 My name is DN Kaul and I belong to the state police service and in 1947 I was an Ass Super nof police stationed in the Srinagar city. I had joiend nthe police force in 1943 ... so it waqs my first posting in the Srinagar city when the raiders came in October 1947.... Somehow the whole city was agog with rumours that the raiders have arrived K and the3y want to capturei it by force, some peoploe started running away, some people panicky, but most people, the generality of the people of the Srinagar city, were unaware of what was happening.... Even some marraiages,... I found that dancing and singing was continuing unabated, (chuckles) without the people knowing what was happening. And I remember some people from B’lla side and others coming in tongas and horse carriages giving horrible descriptions of w2hat is happening there in B’lla and there, where the raiders had infested those places. (1’30) WHEN DID U FIRST HEAR ABOUT THE RAIDS? ... somewhere in the3 last week of October, 22nd/23rd October, w2er heard that some raiders have come via M’bad and they have invaded the city andnthey are just rushing towards Srinagar city, andn they have fanned out towards the jungle, you know it’s all foresty area there. Mohura and the Uri area... and there ultimate target is Srionagar city. So thay we heard. Later on, as the Maharajah was conductingn his udssehra durbah, where all gazeeted officers are suppoed to offer him a sovereign or half a sovereign depending on there status to show his allegaicne to the Maharajah, and I was also one of the crowd, so as soon as we emerged out of the durbar hall, the lights went off. I sd, heloo, what has happe3ned, and somebody said while, why are you surprised probably the raiders have captured the Mohura power station, which was a damn fact, they had captured the power station which was about 60 miles from Srin and therefore, the wholoe city was pluged in darkness. 1