Talk:Forts in India

Castles in UK

I had the opportunity to visit some of the castles in UK and would like to record my impressions for the benefit of those who have not got the exposure.

The castles are wonderfully maintained. Even such historical parts, which are little more than a heap of rubble, are superbly preserved. The more modern parts are well laid out with properly maintained gardens and excellent house keeping. There are places of rest, where those feeling tired of walking around can take some time off.

The show is on at Windsor Castle

Who does all that? You expect the Archaeological department or some such government department to do it. Well no, it is mostly private effort and the money is raised through admission fees, sponsorships and donations. They charge heavily and still people crowd in. Everybody is so proud of heritage and history.

Almost every place has a wonderful glossy brochure, detailing its history and specialities. People readily pay for them and take them home. Most places also have an audiovisual show. The one at Urquhart Castle in Scotland left me stunned. I just cannot wipe it from my mind. It was blown off and the ruins stand on the shores of Loch Ness. Given an opportunity, I would like to go back and view it again. There usually is a souvenir shop. Tourists like to pick up mementoes. Many have special guided tours. Warwick Castle, now run by Madame Tussauds, has an array of wax models recreating life of the period.

Urquhart Castle

The son et lumiere show in Delhi’s Red Fort is certainly charming. I have sat through both the Hindi and English versions many times, but then it was created by the best talents in the country in the euphoria of the years after independence. We do not have many such shows. Maybe, we should think about more. I am sure that the idea will catch on and people would be willing to pay for good informative entertainment.

We have plenty of wealth and treasures strewn all over the country. It is time to organise them properly.

The quality of information on these pages here can improve substantially, only if we are conscious about it all. And what about photographs? Who does not have a camera now-a-days?

I have a small advice for those who wish to write about forts. Please go through some of the pages about the castles of UK – Windsor Castle, Dover Castle, Warwick Castle, Edinburgh Castle… -- P.K.Niyogi 13:32, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

list class?

This article has been assigned a list class. IMO, this should be a summary article with short paragraphs on the historically important forts in India, not the table format it is in currently. Moreover in the table format it will overlap with List of forts in India. I would like to rewrite Forts in India along the summary article lines and request opinions on the same. --Belasd (talk) 00:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Something like this, perhaps.--Belasd (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Great Idea. It needs to be a proper fort article. Will help out! AshLin (talk) 01:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Glad for the company! --Belasd (talk) 19:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Removed text/list

Text removed on March 27

Forts in India have been listed below and in the template with links to their respective pages. Only such forts which have a separate entry or where almost the entire location is related to the fort is included here. Cities or towns with forts as one of the many attractions are not included. For example, there is an entry about Fort William and it is included here but Kolkata is not included here.

Fort	State in which located	Built	Remarks
Achalgarh	Rajasthan	1452	11 km north of Mount Abu
Agra Fort	Uttar Pradesh	before 16th century	A World Heritage Site
Allahabad Fort	Uttar Pradesh	1583
Amber Fort	Rajasthan	1592	11 km from Jaipur
Asirgarh	Madhya Pradesh	Around 10th century	20 km north of the town of Burhanpur
Attur Fort	Tamil Nadu	17th century	Located in Attur, Salem
Bandhavgarh Fort	Madhya Pradesh	before 3rd century BC	At the centre of Bandhavgarh National Park
Barabati Fort	Orissa	14th century	Located in Cuttack
Bassein Fort	Maharashtra	1534	Located near Vasai just north of Mumbai
Bathinda Fort	Punjab	1st century	Located in Bathinda, Punjab
Bekal Fort	Kerala	17th century	Faces the Arabian Sea
Belapur Fort	Maharashtra	1560-1570	Located in Navi Mumbai
Bombay Castle	Maharashtra	16th century
Castella de Aguada	Maharashtra	1640
Chandragiri	Andhra Pradesh	11th century	It is near Tirupati
Chandragiri Fort	Kerala	17th century
Chittorgarh Fort	Rajasthan
Chunar Fort	Uttar Pradesh	12th century	Located in Mirzapur District.
Daulatabad	Maharashtra	1187	Earlier known as Devagiri
Delhi Fort	Delhi	17th century	Also known as Lal Qila or Red Fort
Dindigul Fort	Tamil Nadu	1605	Located in Dindigul
Dongri Fort	Maharashtra		Also known as Dongri Hill Fort
Fatehpur Sikri Fort	Uttar Pradesh	1570	A World Heritage Site, 45 Kilometers from Agra.
Fort Arnala	Maharashtra	16th century	Island fort 12 km north of Vasai
Fort Madhogarh	Rajasthan	16th century	Located near Jaipur
Fort St David	Tamil Nadu	1640	Located in Cuddalore
Fort St George	Tamil Nadu	1644	Located in Chennai
Fort William	West Bengal	1780	Located in Kolkata
Gingee Fort	Tamil Nadu	9th century	Also known as senji or Chinji or Jinji
Gohad Fort	Madhya Pradesh	16th century
Golkonda	Andhra Pradesh	1143	Located near Hyderabad
Gwalior Fort	Madhya Pradesh	11th century?
Harishchandragad	Maharashtra	6th century	It is located in Ahmadnagar region
Ratangad	Maharashtra	8th century	It is located in RatanWadi, Taluka - Akole,Ahmadnagar region
Hosdurg Fort	Kerala
Jaigarh Fort	Rajasthan	16th century?	Located near Jaipur
Jaisalmer Fort	Rajasthan	11th century
Jalore Fort	Rajasthan	8th-10th century
Jhansi Fort	Uttar Pradesh	early 17th century	Located in Jhansi
Junagarh Fort	Rajasthan	1588	Located in Bikaner
Kalinjar	Uttar Pradesh	3rd-5th century	Located in Banda district
Kankwadi	Rajasthan		Located in Alwar district
Kolaba Fort	Maharashtra	1680	2 km from Alibag
Kumbhalgarh	Rajasthan		Located in Rajsamand district
Lal Kot	Delhi	8th century
Lohagad	Maharashtra		52 km from Pune
Lohagarh Fort	Rajasthan		Located at Bharatpur
Madh Fort	Maharashtra		Also known as Versova Fort
Mahim Fort	Maharashtra	17th century
Mandu	Madhya Pradesh	8th-12th century	100 km from Indore
Mazagon Fort	Maharashtra	1698
Mehrangarh Fort	Rajasthan	15th century	Located in Jodhpur
Murud-Janjira	Maharashtra	before 16th century	Island fort in Raigad district
Nahar Singh Mahal	Haryana	1739	Located at Ballabhgarh
Nahargarh Fort	Rajasthan	1734	Located near Jaipur
Old Fort, Delhi	Delhi	16th century	Also known as Purana Qila
Padmadurg	Maharashtra		Sea fort
Palakkad Fort	Kerala	1766
Pallipuram Fort	Kerala	1503	Located in Ernakulam district
Panhala fort	Maharashtra	12th century	18 km northwest of Kolhapur
Povval Fort	Kerala		10 km from Kasargod town
Pratapgad	Maharashtra	1656	25 km from Mahabaleswar
Qila Rai Pithora	Delhi
Ramnagar Fort	Uttar Pradesh	?	Located in Varanasi.
Raigad	Maharashtra	17th century	Earlier called Rairi Fort
Riwa Fort	Maharashtra		Locally known as Kala Qilla
Sewri Fort	Maharashtra	1680
Shivneri Fort	Maharashtra		105 km from Pune
Sindhudurg	Maharashtra	1664	Occupies an islet in the Arabian Sea
Sinhgad	Maharashtra	before 14th century	Located near Pune
Sion Hillock Fort	Maharashtra	17th century
St. Angelo Fort	Kerala	1505	Also known as Kannur Kotta or Kannur Fort
Sudhagad	Maharashtra
Taragarh Fort	Rajasthan	1534
Thalassery Fort	Kerala	1708	Earlier known as Tellicherry
Tikona	Maharshtra	before 1585	Also known as Vitangad
Tughlaqabad	Delhi		Ruined fort abandoned in 1327
Udayagiri Fort	Tamil Nadu	17th century	Located near Nagercoil
Vattakottai Fort	Tamil Nadu	18th century	Located in Kanyakumari
Vellore Fort	Tamil Nadu	1566	Located in Vellore
Bhongir Fort	Andhra Pradesh	12th century	Located in Bhongir
Orugallu Fort	Andhra Pradesh	12th century	Located in Warangal
Kondapalli Fort	Andhra Pradesh	14th century	Located in Vijayawada
Gooty Fort	Andhra Pradesh	12th century	Located at Gooty 52 km from Anantapur
Penukonda Fort	Andhra Pradesh	1575	Located at Penukonda 70 km from Anantapur
Kurnool Fort	Andhra Pradesh	16th century	Located in Kurnool
Domakonda Fort	Andhra Pradesh	18th century	Located at 150 km from Hyderbad and 50 km from Nizamabad
Worli Fort	Maharashtra	1675

Change of emphasis

Since this is not a generic article on forts, the technical terms should be discussed relative to Indian forts. I do understand that you are doing so, but the text should be written more explicitly. AshLin (talk) 02:26, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

That is a good suggestion. Will keep it in mind. --Belasd (talk) 20:27, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Sources

Would this be considered RS? It does cite references and seems to be some kind of online journal. http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/TSA/Special%20Issue%20on%20Defense/Ray.htm --Belasd (talk) 20:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks Okay. She has proovided eferences, it doesn't seem generic;there are no ads. Go ahead. AshLin (talk) 01:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Ethiopian forts in India ?

Page 9 of this has an intresting mention:

“ Habsi Kot was an Ethiopian fort inIndia, which contained the tombs of soldiers and nobles whofought with Malik Ambar, an Ethiopian commander who leda force of Africans and Asians to defend India in the seven-teenth century. ”

But I dont see any mention of Ethiopian forts in the Article, is it worth mentioning? Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 06:34, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

The Abyssinians or 'Siddis' did rule some part of coastal India. However a fort In India is an Indian fort in the general usage in the meaning of the term. But the fact in isolation doesn't seem to merit mention in a generic article about forts in India.

Mumbai and Bangalore

There are 3 [or more] forts in Mumbai, Worli, Mahim, Vasai, [and someone mentioned Bandra], I have seen only the 1st 3 when I lived there.

There are plenty of forts in and around Bangalore, including the one built by Kempegowda on KR Rd Bangalore Fort, one at Devanahalli, one of Tipu and what not. Any plans to add these?

Regards, --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

You mean add it to the template or to the article? - --Belasd (talk) 00:19, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

UNESCO World Heritage sites

I added to the see also section a link to Hill Forts of Rajasthan the article starts "The Hill Forts of Rajasthan in northern India are a UNESCO World Heritage Site." This seems to contradict the claim in the lead of this article "Two forts in India are UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Agra Fort and the Red Fort." as it implies that there are only two. If it is not meant to make that claim then I suggest it is rewritten as "The Agra Fort and the Red Fort are UNESCO World Heritage sites." -- PBS (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Plates of Indian forts c. 1800–1830

There are list of plates in

• Welsh, James (1830). Military Reminiscences: Extracted from a Journal of Nearly Forty Years' Active Service in the East Indies. Smith, Elder, and Co., 1830. See pages [ xiii–xiv

that would be worth adding to a {{commons category}} if nothing else. -- PBS (talk) 15:18, 21 December 2014 (UTC)