Patna (BiharTimes):Some rare documents and pictures which were banned during the British regime, are now going to be published in three huge volumes.

Titled, 'Teen Shaheed' (three martyrs), the lithographed image published in Kolkata also depicts a cell filled with revolutionaries behind them and on the right side shows a ship full of people being transported to 'Kala Pani' (Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands) while Lord Krishna is shown on the top in a halo, showering blessings.

It was banned and seized by the British government after the trio were hanged in Lahore in 1931.

This graphic depiction of the hanging of the trio, captioned with the famous couplet "Rang de basanti chola..." was found in the Bihar State Archives (BSA), buried among some of the rare documents that were proscribed across the country during the colonial era. Bihar State Archives Director Vijoy Kumar said, "We went through our own records here at the State Archives and collected and collated documents and literatures which were proscribed during the Raj."

He said the work titled Proscribed Documents in the Records of the Bihar State Archives - Vol I, Vol II and Vol III, with focus on the period 1915-1947, is currently "in press" and would be out by March end.