India, June 15 -- The lights went out and the maximum-security prison was plunged into the clotted darkness of night. Muffled groans and cries seemed to emanate from 54 narrow cells. Built in 1849, the mountaintop Dagshai prison held a range of political activists and freedom fighters in the British colonial era. Indians who fought in the Revolt of 1857 were held here, in particular Gorkha soldiers who took up arms in nearby battlefields in that first war of independence. Irish soldiers of the Connaught Rangers regiment were held here too, after they mutinied against their English officers in 1920. One of the prison's last inmates was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathu- ram Godse, who spent a night in a cold, dark cell here, while on his...