Cellular Jail (nonfiction)

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī (Hindi for "black waters"), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

The prison was used by the British especially to exile political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable independence activists such as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt, Yogendra Shukla among others, were imprisoned here during the struggle for India's independence. Today, the complex serves as a national memorial monument.

"The British Raj sent Indian dissidents and mutineers to a remote island penal colony in an 'experiment' that involved torture, medical tests, forced labour and, for many, death." It is estimated that of the total 80,000 political prisoners, the British Raj held at the Kalapani, a very few survived.

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