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Preserving dark secrets

The lesser known Dagshai Jail Museum is about rediscovering important pieces of history connected with the Indian Independence movement and before.

There are 54 cells in this jail. Abandoned and heavy with silence. They carry the stories of those who once held the bars. Dagshai Jail, about a two hour drive from Chandigarh, which has now been converted into a museum, was where Mahatma Gandhi was housed for a day. His assassin, Nathuram Godse, was also kept here.

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