How long did nehru live in his little cell in dehra dun jail??
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The historic cell/barrack where Nehru stayed for one of his longest jail terms during British rule and completed his famous book 'Glimpses of World History' in 1932-33 remains in utter neglect, with jail staff using it as family quarters in the state capital.
Two deputy jailors and a doctor are using this three-room barrack at the Dehra Dun jail for residential purposes.
Nehru was transferred to Dehra Dun Jail from Bareilly Jail because of bad health and he penned these famous lines about this 1932 cell in his Autobiography, "For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehra Dun Gaol, and I began to feel as if I was a part of it."
He termed it a 'thought-infested room' and had the company in this prison of Govind Ballabh Pant and Kunwar Anand Singh during that period.
The Hindustan Times was successful in discovering the forgotten cell after more than seventy years through extensive research. Searching out the old structure was not easy with the Jail campus having one old jail, one new one, and several old buildings.
But the Jail Diaries of Pandit Nehru solved the mystery. Giving minute details of the location he wrote on 8 June 1932, " We are really not in the jail proper but just outside it in the warders' old quarters."
Incidentally, at the Dehra Dun jail there exists only three identified old buildings viz-old jail, old jailors house and the European Ward.
Nehru clearly writes in his autobiography that his 1932 cell was located outside the goal wall, but within the goal compound, the side where a European Ward was also situated.
His diaries provided further clues by stating that he was allowed to take morning and evening walk about a distance of about a hundred yards from his cell. Another hint was about the height of the room,
"Here we have a baby wall hardly deserving the name of jail wall-barely nine feet." The wall of the discovered barrack is just nine feet; it is located about a hundred yards from the main gate and is
outside the old goal wall but inside the campus.
Nehru came here for the first time as a prisoner in 1932 and served his term from 6 June 1932 to 23 August 1933. He came again in 1934, 1940 and 1941.
Incidentally, the Hindustan Times highlighted this issue last year.
Answer:
Fourteen and an half years Nehru live in his little cell in Dehra Dun jail
Explanation:
The ancient cell where Nehru spent one of his longest jail sentences under British control and wrote his renowned book 'Glimpses of World History' in 1932-33 is now being used as a family quarters by jail staff in the state capital.
This three-room barrack inside the Dehra Dun jail serves as a residence for two deputy jailors and a doctor.
"For fourteen and a half months he stayed in his little cell or room in the Dehra Dun jail, and I began to feel as if I was a part of it," Nehru wrote in his Autobiography on his transfer from Bareilly Jail to Dehra Dun Jail due to ill health in 1932.
During the liberation movement, Jawaharlal Nehru spent more than 9 years in various jails.
During this time, more than any other important leader of our freedom struggle, he was a force to be reckoned with.
The irony is that his contribution is being questioned by the current generation, particularly those who are reading the 'alternative' new history being created.
Without a doubt, he made a significant contribution to the independence cause. He was the torchbearer of the liberation struggle under the Mahatma's mentorship.
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