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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_Jail Cellular Jail] Wikipedia
*[http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm History of Andaman Cellular Jail] Andamancellularjail.org
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2003-12/1072884610 post] is about 'Burials: Port Blair - extracted from returns April 1878 to March 1891'*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2011-01/1293968501 post] regarding is about government appointments c 1904-1937. Also There is also reference to the destruction of most of the cemetery at Port Blair due to the tsunami in 2004.*This [http://www.hinduonnet.com/lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700240400.htm review], from ''The Hindu'', of the book ''Travel Writing and the Empire'' by Sachidananda Mohanty (Editor), gives details of one of the essays "Colonialism, Surveillance and Memoirs of travel: Tegart's Diaries and the Andaman Cellular Jail", where "Tutun Mukherjee looks at the "Memoir of an Indian Policeman", a compilation made by Tegart's wife of the diaries of Charles Augustus Tegart, British loyalist and Police Commissioner. The Memoir, Mukherjee notes, records a particularly violent chapter in India's colonial history, that of extremism, British repression and brutal colonial incarceration. Travelling to the Cellular Jail in the beautiful Andaman archipelago in 1913, Tegart notes the careful architecture of the prison, recording all the many ways in which the prisoners were kept under control, his eyes ever alert for lapses in vigilance". Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/8187649364 FIBIS Shop]
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