Cellular Jail Pilgrimage

Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India — our Devil’s Island

Outside of Cellular Jail. Author’s image.

I am in Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India. I am here for a beach vacation which I “deserve”, but first, a pilgrimage to where Indians most recalcitrant freedom fighters were exiled for incarceration— the Cellular Jail.

All prisoners were released by 1939, due to a campaign by Mahatma Gandhi, before India gained her independence in 1947. The place is a National monument now.

Inside the complex. Author’s image.

You can see the cells which were designed to keep each prisoner in solitary.

There were a few displays which were hard to see. I saw them anyway because if someone could go through this, I can jolly well see it and blog about it.

The punishments at Cellular Jail. Author’s image.

I’ve collected them in a collage so you can view them all in a rush. One of the images is of a man being flogged, another is of a flogging post in the sun, another is of the different kinds of shackles and a punishment dress made out of sack-cloth, and the last is of a man…