Description:- Cellular Jail , Union Territory :- Andaman & Nicobar
Post Office :- , Pin Code :-
The Cellular Jail, also known
as Kala Pani , was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The
prison was used by the British government for
the purpose of exiling political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Although
the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British
had been using the Andaman Islands as a prison since the days in the immediate
aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The construction
of the prison started in 1896 and was completed in 1906. The original building
was a puce-coloured
brick building. The bricks used to build the building were brought from Burma.The building had
seven wings, at the center of which a tower served as the intersection and was
used by guards to keep watch on the inmates; this
format was based on Jeremy Bentham's idea of the Panopticon.
The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a
bicycle wheel.
