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Answer the following questions: 1. What was the purpose of Cellular Jail during the British2. Name two freedom fighters who were imprisoned in the Cellular Jail?3 How did the jail get its name?4. What happened to the two wings of the jail during 1942-1945?5. Kaala Paani,situated in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
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Answer» Explanation:1) the main purpose of the British for opening the CELLULAR jail was that the British wanted to END all the revolutionary PEOPLE who wanted to fight for the freedom of India. Any person was seen for fighting for the freedom they were sent to jail for life imprisonment2)freedom fighters like Batukeshwar Dutt and Yogendra SHUKLA were imprisoned in the cellular jail3)The NAME, "cellular jail", derived from the solitary cells which prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. Also, the spokes were so designed such that the face of a cell in a spoke saw the back of cells in another spoke4)Two wings were demolished in 1942 under the Japanese occupation of Andamans (British resumed control of the island in 1945 after World War II) and another two were demolished post Independence. In 1969 the remaining three wings and the tower were converted into a national memorial. |
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