Hijli Detention Camp

[2] Located in Hijli, beside Kharagpur, (a part of former Hijli Kingdom) in the district of Midnapore West, West Bengal, India, it played a significant role in the Indian independence movement of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The large numbers of those who participated in armed struggles or the non-cooperation movement against the British could not be accommodated in ordinary jails.

Many Indian nationalists, including Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, voiced strong protests against the British Raj over this incident.

[3] Today, the camp is also known for being the birthplace of Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, which started in 1951.

[6] In 1990, a part of the former detention camp buildings were converted to house the Nehru Museum of Science and Technology.