Alipore Jail

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colonial-era prison historical site prison

Alipore Jail is a historic colonial-era prison in Kolkata, India, known for incarcerating prominent Indian freedom fighters during the struggle for independence.

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Label	Occurrences
Alipore Central Jail	1
Alipore Jail canonical	1

Statements (34)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial-era prison ⓘ historical site ⓘ prison ⓘ
associatedEvent	Alipore Bomb Case ⓘ
category	Colonial-era buildings in India ⓘ History of Kolkata ⓘ Indian independence movement sites ⓘ Prisons in Kolkata ⓘ
city	Calcutta ⓘ surface form: Kolkata
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
formerName	Alipore Jail self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Alipore Central Jail
governingBody	Government of West Bengal ⓘ
heritageStatus	historic site ⓘ
historicalPeriod	British colonial period ⓘ
knownFor	Alipore Bomb Case prisoners ⓘ incarceration of Indian freedom fighters ⓘ role in Indian independence movement ⓘ
languageOfLocality	Bengali ⓘ English ⓘ
locatedIn	Alipore ⓘ Alipore ⓘ surface form: Alipore neighborhood Calcutta ⓘ surface form: Kolkata West Bengal ⓘ
notablePrisoner	Sri Aurobindo ⓘ surface form: Aurobindo Ghosh Chittaranjan Das ⓘ surface form: Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Subhas Chandra Bose ⓘ other Indian freedom fighters ⓘ
partOf	prison system of West Bengal ⓘ
region	eastern India ⓘ surface form: Eastern India
significance	symbol of Indian nationalist resistance ⓘ symbol of colonial repression ⓘ
usedFor	detention of common criminals ⓘ detention of political prisoners ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sri Aurobindo → imprisonedAt → Alipore Jail ⓘ

Alipore Jail → formerName → Alipore Jail self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alipore Central Jail