To most Indians, the memory of the penal settlement is associated with its Cellular Jail. For, within its solitary cells the freedom fighters were engaged in a long, arduous and bitter struggle for freedom.

                The advent of the twentieth Century saw intensification in the struggle against foreign rule. When the flames of freedom light up the hearts and souls of the people, how long can they be stopped? It was during this phase that a new breed of prisoners set foot in the Cellular Jail- -the revolutionary Freedom Fighters or the Political Prisoners.

                Many charismatic personalities were imprisoned in this Jail. Savarkar brothers, Hotilal Verma, Babu Ram Hari, Pandit Permanand, Ladha Ram, Ullaskar Dutt, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Bhai Permanand, Indu Bhushan Roy, Prithvi Singh Azad, Pulin Das, Trailokyanath Chakravarthy, Gurumukh Singh and many more. The catalogue is long and distinguished. Groups of revolutionaries involved in Alipore Bomb case, Nasik Conspiracy case, Lahore Conspiracy case, Chittagoan Armoury Raid case, Inter-Provincial conspiracy case, Gaya Conspiracy case etc. were brought to the Cellular Jail on long terms of imprisonment.