PARTITION — additional recordings / Andrew Whitehead / ___________________________ / CD-22 Bali family (Sikhs) in Baramulla i/v by AW, 1 May 2003 the Bali family, perhaps the most prominent Sikh family in Baramulla, a man and wife (marriedn in 1946) and the man’s younger brother, who usually lives in Delhi; in 1947 a prosperous family which owned a lot of land and which - they say - had donated the land on which St Joseph’s hospital and college was built; says in 47 raiders celebrated Eid in Baramulla, and the delayed them; use ‘qabbali’ (meaning tribesmen) as Urdu word for raiders; a modest ground floor of a house on a hill overlooking Baramulla KT4 Track 1 - WILDTRACK in vehicle, brief Track 2 - STAND UP in rain, on way to Mohammad [name jumbled] - and WILDTRACK of rain Track 5 - WILDTRACK in car, navigating bumpy road in rain Track 6 - WILDTRACK in car, slightly better road, lots of water sounds In Bali house Track 7 My name is Anoop Singh Bali... I am 83 ... [in 47] I was actually not in Kashmir, but came here when this raid and evacuation started [[ seems to have reached in mid-Nov, had been in air force]]... we had come to evacuate people, then the qabbali had already raided here that was Nov 1947 ... our houses were also burnt... that time qabbali, that is raiders, were going back, and after some time our Indian Army also started coming in... the condition was they were lightened and most of the houses were looted, and esp Hindus and Sikhs, their condition was v bad and almost all of them had evacuated, left this place, and they had settled out of K* qabbalis, they had come to raid, and Pakistan had told them you go, you fight there and loot ’ and that s your property; they had two sets, one with guns and another with... bags-... filling bags and taking away, looting property ... we could not cany after shoes ... my wife was there and she went barefooted... people had run away like anything; from the jungle they went to a place, that is a vilage near ? Ichama, there 3,4, 5,000 Sikhs had gathered ... and they were raider; about 30 to 40 qabbalis with guns they came, automatic guns, and they started firing on them ... qabbalis, actually they are tribals ... I have seen there dead bodies, I had come seven days after the Pakistanis left this place I have come to Baramulla, and I have seen dead bodies on the roadside of these qabbalis ... these Pathans, they are on the border of Pakistan 1