Thursday, 4 February 2010

the fort of chithorgarh





this is the overlook of chithoregarh fort in rajasthan this fort amazingly contains 30 forts inside and an artificial lake which you can see in this pictures
in ancient India this place used to call chithrapura this was built by the rajpuths of Mewar long standing pillar which is visible in the picture is called as jaya sthamba which was built by
king 'rana kumbha' in celebration of his victory over the sulthans of malwa and gujarath in 15th century this jaya sthambha built between 1442 ad to 1449 ad
akbar occupied this fort in 1568 from raja udai singh this was a dreadful story indians who study the history of akbar as a great ruler should know about him like he killed 30000 rajputs before taking this fort in to his custody. Womens in the fort nearly 3000 people took sathi means burned themselves rathar to live in disgrace




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