Debendranarayan Kar
Mr. Kar writes, “My home is in Ramgung police station under Narayanpur village, Number 14 Union). Last 24 Answin[1]. Several Muslims came into my house and repeatedly pressured me to adopt Islam. Among them were Akram Ali, Lalmiya Ali, Kalu Miya, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Azizi, etc. There were some local Muslims and also some outsiders in the group. At around 1:30 AM, they forced us to adopt Islam. After that on Saturday several strangers came to our house; their faces were blackened. They snatched the jewelry from the bodies of my wife and from other women in the household. They looted our house and left us penniless. There was no way for us to escape. These people came back and threatened us not to leave. So, we were confined to our house, and we were starving. Our loss is about Rs. 3, 000/ They destroyed some of our important legal documents.
They took my wife and kept her in a Minister’s house, tortured her for two days, and later returned her; she was unconscious.
Yours truly,
Debendraranjan Kar
Village Narayanpur
P.S. Ramgung
No 14 Union
October,26, 1946
(From The Diary of 1947, Nirmal Kumar Basu).
[1] Ashwin overlaps with September October. 24 Ashwin would be about October 10/11, 1946, in Gregorian Calendar.
Reference
Mazumdar, Rinita (2024). Unspoken Hindu Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. Translated from the original Bengali, Noakhali, 1946, by Sandip Mukherjee, Community Publishing, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
