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 also housed the Alipore Jail Press. It is no longer in operation as a jail, having been shut down on February 20, 2019.[1] The jail site is being developed as an Independence museum in the name of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed there.[2] It is also sometimes used for film shoots.
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."[3]
- 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
- Charu Chandra Bose
References
- ↑ End of an era as Alipore Central jail closes down. Business Standard. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ↑ Alipore jail to house museum on Independence movement. Times of India. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ↑ The Prison-Cell Of Alipore. Sri Aurobindo Society. Retrieved 4 December 2010.