The Buxa Fort
Buxa Fort is located in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, in the Alipurduar district in West Bengal, India. Its origin is uncertain. Before the occupation of the fort by the British, it was a point of contention between the King of Bhutan and the Cooch Kings. The King of Bhutan used the fort to protect the portion connecting Tibet with India, via Bhutan. Still later during the unrest in the occupation of Tibet, hundreds of refugees arrived at the place and used the then-abandoned fort as a place of refuge. The British, invited by the Cooch King, intervened and captured the fort which was formally handed over to the British on November 11, 1865 as part of the Treaty of Sinchula. The fort was later used as a high-security prison and detention camp in the 1930s. It was the most notorious and unreachable prison in India after the Cellular Jail in Andaman. Nationalist revolutionaries belonging to the Anushilan Samiti and Yugantar groups, such as Krishnapada Chakraborty were imp...