Hooghly Jail or the Hooghly District Correctional Home, is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at Hugli-Chuchura in the Indian state of West Bengal.[1]

History

Hooghly Jail

This is one of the oldest prison center of West Bengal since East India Company rule. The jail was founded in 1817 beside the Hooghly river. Primarily the jail building was a private doweling house of a native Indian and the ration system of the jail was introduced in 1836.[2] During the British rule, political prisoners were kept here in solitary confinement. Kazi Nazrul Islam, the Bengali revolutionary poet was incarcerated in a solitary cell of this jail 14 April 1923 to 17 June 1923.[3][4] He wrote a few patriotic poems while he was imprisoned at Hooghly Jail.[5]

External links

Media related to Hooghly District Correctional Home at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ "Heritage Commission, West Bengal". wbhc.in. Archived from the original on 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  2. ^ Toynbee, George (1888). A Sketch of the Administration of the Hooghly District from 1795 to 1845: With Some Account of the Early English, Portuguese, Dutch, French and Danish Settlements. Bengal Secretatiat Press.
  3. ^ "Official Website of West Bengal Correctional Services, India – History Heritage". wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2019-04-29. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  4. ^ tni (2015-08-31). "HOOGHLY JAIL CLASH & FIRE: CONCERN ABOUT POET KAZI NAZRUL'S HERITAGE CELL". timesofnorth.IN. Archived from the original on 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  5. ^ Muzaffar Ahmad (2009). Kazi Nazrul Islam: Smritikotha (in Bengali). Kolkata: National Book Agency. p. 171.


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