The author served more than 30 years in different jails of eastern India, mainly Bengal, as an officer under the British. He came in intimate contact with condemned and ailing political prisoners of all variety and many leaders. Sufferings of freedom fighters, ravages of World War and the ultimate partition of the country left deep scars on an educated and patriotic Indian whose heart bled under the regulation uniform. The account sheds much new and interesting light on our recent political history behind the most lighted zone.

It is not a biography for self-satisfaction, the common craze of people in old age. How most common people got involved in that period of freedom struggle is the theme. There were many thrilling stories to tell but I have reasons to supress some. My various involvements with Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the rebel leader, Bidrohi Sarat Chandra Bose, British Parliamentary Commission, terrorists of various types and high officials and the latters' nefarious activities have left a deep scar in me. Nobody told the people before how we in the prisons also suffered not by our own choice. While all facts are true, exact conversations that took place so many years ago have been carefully recorded trusting on my memories.

My thanks are due to Mr. Amiya Kumar Bose and Dr. Sisir Kumar Bose for the help in collecting some materials about Netaji and Sarat Chandra's inner life. I am grateful to Mr. Tarapada Lahiri who edited the Centenary Volume of the Anushilan Party as also to Mr. Pran Kumar Das, an old and popular member of the Anushilan Party for better appreciation of the terrorist activities all over India, Germany and America.