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1 Rupee Cellular Jail, Port Blair
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the Lion Capital of Ashoka, the national emblem of India, depicted in high relief with three lions visible above the Dharma Chakra (wheel) flanked by a bull and a horse on the abacus. Directly below the capital, the national motto is inscribed in Devanagari script: सत्यमेव जयते (Satyameva Jayate, meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs'). The denomination numeral '1' appears prominently in the lower field, flanked by the Devanagari legend रुपया to the left and the Latin legend RUPEE to the right. The country name is rendered in Devanagari भारत along the upper left periphery and in Latin INDIA along the upper right periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | भारत INDIA सत्यमेव जयते रुपया 1 RUPEE |
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The Cellular Jail at Port Blair was built by the British colonial administration between 1896 and 1906 specifically to isolate political prisoners from the Indian independence movement — deportees sent to the Andaman Islands had virtually no chance of organizing resistance or escape. The facility held figures including Bal Gangadhar Tilak's associates and, later, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who spent over a decade there in solitary confinement. The centenary of its construction prompted this commemorative issue.
The jail's seven wings radiated from a central tower, allowing a single guard to surveil all cell blocks simultaneously — a panopticon design borrowed directly from Benthamite prison theory.