Cellular Jail: The Saga of Resistance
- The Cellular Jail prison complex was constructed between 1896 and 1906 in Port Blair.
- Revolutionaries were not classified as political prisoners rather seditionists or anarchists and were given class ‘D’ (Dangerous) and ‘PI’ (Permanently Incarcerated) badges.
- The first batch of political prisoners from Calcutta (the convicts of Alipore Bomb case), reached the Cellular jail on 15 December 1909.
- `David Barrie, an Irishman was the jailer there and treated revolutionaries with utmost cruelty.
- In 1911, the first resistance in Cellular jail began by a Punjabi prisoner, Nand Gopal, who was sentenced to 10 years for writing seditious articles in his weekly Swarajya.
- The Ghadr movement to ....
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