Kangra Fort

                                        Kangra Fort
Kangra Fort(Himachal pradesh)
Kangra Fort

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The Kangra Fort is located 20 kilometers from the town of Dharamsala on the outskirts of the town of Kangra, India
 The Kangra Fort was built by the royal Rajput family of Kangra State, which traces its origins to the ancient Trigarta Kingdom, mentioned in the Mahabharat epic. It is the largest fort in the Himalayas and probably the oldest dated fort in India.
The fort of Kangra resisted Akbar’s siege in 1615. However, Akbar's son Jahangir successfully subdued the fort in 1620. Kangra was at the time ruled by Raja Hari Chand Katoch of Kangra (also known as Raja Hari Chand II)Mughal Emperor Jahangir with the help of Suraj Mal garrisoned with his troops.
The Katoch Kings repeatedly looted Mughal controlled regions, weakening the Mughal control, aiding in the decline of Mughal power, Raja Sansar Chand II succeeded in recovering the ancient fort of his ancestors, in 1789. Maharaja Sansar Chand fought multiple battles with Gurkhas on one side and Sikh King Maharaja Ranjit Singh on the other. Sansar Chand used to keep his neighboring Kings jailed, and this led to conspiracies against him. During a battle between the Sikhs and Katochs, the gates of the fort had been kept open for supplies.
Battle of Kangra and the subsequent capture of the fort by Nepalese forces
Kangra Fort About (Himachal pradesh)
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The Gorkhali army entered the opened scarcely armed gates in 1806. This forced an alliance between Maharaja Sansar Chand and Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Because of the insufficiency of the need within the fort after a long Gurkha Sikh War and unable to procure any, the Gurkhas left the Fort. The Fort remained with the Katochs until 1828 when Ranjit Singh annexed it after Sansar Chand's death. The fort was finally taken by the British after the Sikh war of 1846.
A British garrison occupied the fort until it was heavily damaged in An earthquake on in1905.

 Layout


Kangra Fort Layout (Himachal pradesh)
Layout
The entrance to the fort is through a small courtyard enclosed between two gates which were built during the Sikh period, as appears from an inscription over the entrance. From here a long and narrow passage leads up to the top of the fort, through the Ahani and Amiri Darwaza (gate), both attributed to Nawab Saif Ali Khan, the first Mughal Governor of Kangra. About 500 feet from the outer gate the passage turns round at a very sharp angle and passes through the Jehangiri Darwaza.
The Dasani Darwaza, which is now flanked by defaced statues of River Goddesses Ganga and the Yamuna gave access to a courtyard, along with the south side of which stood the stone shrines of Lakshmi-Narayana and Ambika Devi and a Jain temple with the large idol of Rishabhanatha.

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