Exploring the beauty and dark past of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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She was married to Robert Christopher Tytler, who was the superintendent of the Ross Island Penal Colony that was used to keep prisoners from the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857.

However, this jail, as the author reminds us, also had other high-profile inmates especially from a revolutionary group called the Anushilan Samiti that planned and executed attacks on and assassinations of British officers.

Since “large cutters” (fast-sailing boats) dragged by convicts were inconvenient, “small lighters” (swift boats) were developed for communication and transport between islands, and for the “disposal of night soil”.