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Alipore Jail

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Location
  
Alipore, Kolkata

Security class
  
Maximum

Phone
  
033 2479 1053

Status
  
Open

Opened
  
1910

Capacity
  
2,000

Address
  
17 Judges Court Road, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027

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The Alipore Jail or Alipore Central Jail (Bengali: আলিপুর কেন্দ্রীয় সংশোধনাগার) is a prison in Alipore, Kolkata, where political prisoners were kept under British rule, among them Subhas Chandra Bose. It is still in operation. It also houses the Alipore Jail Press.

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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."
  • Subhas Chandra Bose
  • K. Kamaraj (1930)
  • Bidhan Chandra Roy (1930)
  • Charu Mazumdar
  • Promode Ranjan Chaudhury (1927)
  • Dr. Jack Preger, MBE (1981)

    • References

    Alipore Jail Wikipedia
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