The story of the Cellular Jail of Andaman Nikabar, associated with the names of great freedom fighters Damodar Veer Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt and Yogendra Shukla, is a dark chapter in history. The witness of British torture in the freedom movement, hearing the name of this prison used to make anyone’s soul tremble.
Andaman Nicobar’s Cellular Jail, where freedom fighters were tortured
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to participate in the naming of the 21 largest unnamed islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after 21 Param Vir Chakra winners on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary i.e. ‘Parakram Divas’ on January 23. Whenever there is talk of Andaman and Nicobar, it is imperative to remember the dreadful story of the Cellular Jail. The story of this Cellular Jail of Andaman and Nicobar is full of valor and indomitable courage. This jail was built by the British to keep the brave Indian freedom fighters in captivity.
This jail remains in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is infamous in history as Kala Pani. In the Cellular Jail, the brave sons of the freedom movement were kept chained in chains. There is no figure of how many fighters were hanged here, how many were blown up by being put in front of the cannon. This prison is surrounded by deep sea. That’s why it was not easy for anyone to reach here. The British had deliberately built it at such a place to punish the Indians who participated in the freedom movement.
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Veer Savarkar was tortured
The construction of Cellular Jail was started in the year 1897. In ten years this jail was completed. The great freedom fighter Veer Savarkar was imprisoned by the British in the Cellular Jail of Andaman and Nicobar after being sentenced to double life imprisonment. The British had tortured him a lot. Apart from him, other Indian revolutionaries who were imprisoned included Jaidev Kapoor, Ashutosh Lahiri, Hotilal Verma, Batukeshwar Dutt, Babu Ram Hari, Nani Gopal Mukhopadhyay, Sardar Gurmukh Singh, Pt. Parmanand, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Indu Bhushan Roy, Prithvi Singh Azad, Pulin Das, Triloki Nath Chakraborty, Gurmukh Singh etc. were there.
Why the name Cellular Jail?
The door wall of the Cellular Jail is a silent testimony to the atrocities of the British government on the brave soldiers of India. 694 cells were made inside the jail. It is called a cell in the language of jail. One cell for each prisoner. That is why it was called Cellular Jail. Different prisoners were kept in different cells. so that they cannot communicate with each other. Earlier this jail was spread over seven branches, but now only three parts of it are left. It was occupied by Japan in the year 1942 during the Second World War. But in 1945 the British again captured it.
marks of the martyrs
The names of brave martyrs are written on the walls of the Cellular Jail. The prison wall presents the story of Shahagad. There is also a museum of weapons here. The brave freedom fighters of India were oppressed with those weapons. Now this place has been dedicated as a national monument. The saga of the heroic freedom struggle is also depicted through sound and light. There is also a museum, an art gallery and a photo gallery. In 1969, the main tower here was declared a national monument.
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