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Adding short description: "A British era jail on Jail road, Dongri." (Shortdesc helper)

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{{short description|A British era jail on Jail road, Dongri.}}
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'''Dongri jail''' is a [[British Raj|British era]] [[jail]] on Jail road, [[Dongri]], an area in [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. It played an important role in the [[Indian freedom movement]], as it played host to a number of under-trial freedom fighters like [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], [[Savarkar]] and Agarkar.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian Nation Builders, Volume 2 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak|date=1989|publisher=Mittal Publications|location=New Delhi|page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xozJ7y89bScC&pg=PA167&dq=dongri+jail#v=onepage&q=dongri%20jail&f=false|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref>

The jail was built by the British in the eighteenth century as on 1804.{{clarify|date=March 2017}} Originally located within the [[Bombay Fort|Dongri fort]] ramparts, building of a separate jail was first suggested by Aungler in 1671. The people initially detained here included both, Indians as well as British nationals. For instance, in March 1701, the [[Provost Marshal]] John Hall was confined to the Dongri jail for being drunk.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodrigues|first1=Dulcinea Correa|title=Bombay Fort in the eighteenth century|date=1994|publisher=Himalaya Publishing House|pages=41, 111, 175|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3BuAAAAMAAJ&q=dongri+jail&dq=dongri+jail|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref> As time progressed, especially towards the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries, its inmates mostly consisted of Indians, especially those charged with sedition (usually freedom fighters) or people awaiting trial.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gill|first1=M. S.|title=Trials that Changed History: From Socrates to Saddam Hussein|date=2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-8176257978|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0SOfZwnXZIC&pg=PA80&dq=dongri+jail#v=onepage&q=dongri%20jail&f=false|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref>

It now functions as a [[Juvenile delinquent|juvenile delinquents home]] for children who are below 18 years of age, convicted of crimes.<ref>{{cite web |author=Raj (Tridha)|title=Dongri Children's Home Toy Library Set up 26th December 2013|url=http://blog.toybank.org/2014/01/dongri-childrens-home-toy-library-set.html|website=blog.toybank.org|publisher=Toybank (NGO)|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Cross|first1=Ellie|title=Artworks - tapping into the power of art - Dongri Children's home|url=http://artworkworks.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-worship.html|website=artworkworks.blogspot.com|publisher=Artworks|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref>

==List of famous inmates ==
* [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]] (1882)<ref name=tilakgokhale>{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Mohammad Shabbir|title=Tilak and Gokhale: A Comparative Study of Their Socio-politico-economic Programmes of Reconstruction|date=1 January 1992|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-8170244783|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3N7tT5kmOsC&pg=PA12&dq=dongri+jail#v=onepage&q=dongri%20jail&f=false|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kelkar|first1=N.C.|title=Trial of Tilak|date=1908|publisher=Publication Division|location=New Delhi}}</ref>
* [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]] (1882)<ref name="tilakgokhale" />
* [[Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] (1911) <ref>{{cite book|last1=Joglekar|first1=Jaywant|title=Veer Savarkar Father of Hindu Nationalism|date=2006|isbn=978-1847283801|page=87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1J3uk3x_k6sC&pg=PA87&dq=dongri+jail#v=onepage&q=dongri%20jail&f=false|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref>

== References ==
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>RAJIVVASUDEV: Adding short description: "A British era jail on Jail road, Dongri." (Shortdesc helper)