Dagshai Jail Museum tells stories of confinement and solitude

Following the latter, the jail was visited by its most famous resident, Mahatma Gandhi, who voluntarily spent the night here to show solidarity with the Irish cause. His VIP jail cell was the only one to have two rooms, a fireplace and a door leading outside. In its current form, the cell bears a photograph of the Mahatma, along with a charkha to mark his presence. Decades later, the last inmate of the jail was to be Gandhi’s assassin, Nathuram Godse, who spent a night here when he was being transported to Shimla to stand trial at the High Court there in 1948.