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Raj era detention centre: A view of the historic Hijli Detention Camp at Kharagpur IIT campus. The large number of youth that participated in the armed struggle or the non-cooperation movement could not be accommodated in ordinary jails. The then British Government decided to establish a few detention camps – the first one was located in Buxa Fort (in Dooars), which was followed by the setting up of the Hijli Detention Camp in 1930. Two unarmed detainees were shot dead here by the British Police on September 16, 1931. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli for collecting the bodies of the two great sons of the freedom movement – Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta. The Hijli Detention Camp was c

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