Hemchandra Das Kanungo was an Indian nationalist and a member of the Anushilan Samiti. Kanungo travelled to Paris in 1907, where he learnt the technique of assembling picric acid bombs from exiled Rus
Hemchandra Das Kanungo
A young Hem Chandra Kanungo
As a teacher at the Midnapore Collegiate School
Sir Bampfylde Fuller arrives at Dhaka
The Cellular Jail, also known as 'Kālā Pānī', is a former British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prison was used by the colonial government of India for the purpose of exiling
Hemchandra Kanungo
…Kanungo was one of the principal co-accused with Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908–09). He was sentenced to transportation for life in the Andamans, but was released in 1921. He was given the honorific sobriquet of, "Biplabi Dronacharya" (Dronacharya for the revolutionaries) by Kazi Nazrul Islam…
Entrance of the Cellular Jail
Cellular Jail, Andaman and Nicobar
The Ross Island Prison Headquarters, 1872
Port Blair - Viper New Jails under construction