"In jail there are various kinds of work to do, the most difficult being the oil-mill, whether by hand or by foot. The latter means that four men are tied to the mill and have to go round and round a centre post just as bullocks do. They have to press out 30 lb. of oil during the day . . . in the oil-mill work by hand you have to turn a handle round and round during the whole day, and thus press out about 30 lb. of oil . . . chopping cocoanut bark is another species of work . . . Ropemaking is the lightest work one gets in jail . . . the regulation about punishment for short work is handcuffs for seven days for the first offence; for the second offence a weekâs handcuffs and four daysâ ganji . For the next offence the punishment was fetters for a month or two, then cross-bar for ten days and for further repetition of the offenceâfetters for six months or so and solitary confinement . . . the work outside jail is still more dreadful."
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Madame Camaâs Bande Mataram, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883â1924 (2019)
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