Alipore Jail
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Location | Alipore, Kolkata |
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Status | Open |
Security class | Maximum |
Capacity | 2000 |
Opened | 1864[1] |
Former name | Old Alipore Jail |
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The Alipore Gaol, Calcutta; in 1870
The Alipore Jail or Alipore Central Jail, also known as Presidency Correctional Home, is a prison in Alipore, Kolkata, where political prisoners were kept under British rule, among them Subhas Chandra Bose. It is still in operation.[2][3] It also houses the Alipore Jail Press.
Notable inmates[]
- Sri Aurobindo (May 1908 – May 1909), imprisoned after the Alipore bomb case. During his stay he wrote a series of articles in Bengali in the journal Suprabhat, later published as Tales of Prison life. He later said, "I have spoken of a year's imprisonment. It would have been more appropriate to speak of a year's living in an ashram or a hermitage. The only result of the wrath of the British Government was that I found God."[4]
- Dudu Miyan (1857–61)
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- K. Kamaraj (1930)
- Ramakrishna Biswas
- Bidhan Chandra Roy (1930)
- Charu Mazumdar
- Pramod Ranjan Choudhury (1926)
- Dr. Jack Preger, MBE (1981)
- P. Kakkan
References[]
- ^ Presidency Correctional Home
- ^ "This jailhouse has a rich past". Deccan Chronicle.
- ^ "Children die in copycat hangings". BBC News. 25 August 2004.
- ^ "The Prison-Cell Of Alipore". Sri Aurobindo Society. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
External links[]
Coordinates: 22°31′48″N 88°19′48″E / 22.5300°N 88.3300°E
Categories:
- Prisons in India
- Buildings and structures in Kolkata
- Alipore
- Law enforcement in West Bengal
- 1910 establishments in British India
- Indian building and structure stubs
- Prison stubs