11. A for Andamans. These tiny island chains were infamous in colonial India for what?
From Quiz I is for India
Answer:
The Cellular Jail
The cellular Jail was a notorious prison built during the British raj between 1896 to 1908, as a place to keep notorious criminals in a place where they cannot escape from. This caused a small problem though, when a desperate prisoner shot and killed Viceroy Mayo and this led to the removal of the imprisonment for life sentences. Later on, during the freedom struggle, hundreds of politcal prisoners were also kept here, and you can see their names carved into the walls here, a sort of a British Abu Ghraib. The tribals on the Andaman islands, the Jarawas are a peaceable folk, hardly the stereotype of the cannibalist savage they were portrayed as in colonial times. Other primitive tribes also live in the Nicobar chain nearby. India's only active volcano, Barren Island is found in the Nicobar chain, but it is an uninhabited island.