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Description: | Photograph of a bastion at Dabhoi in Gujarat, taken by James Burgess in 1874. Dabhoi is an ancient town in the south of Gujarat that was fortified by the Solanki Rajputs from the12th century. The fort was built in the 13th century by the Vaghela king of Patan, or Anhilvada, following the shastric traditions described in the Vastu scriptures and is an example of the Rajput military style There are four gates in each cardinal direction. In the 'Report on the Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh of 1874-75', Burgess wrote, "The curtain walls had six towers or bastions between the central gates and the corner towers, which were generally round in plan with re-entrant angles, or with a series of faces and angles lying in a circle, ad crowned by a chevalier bastion, with Hindu Kangras along the top of the walls...The walls were generally constructed of large blocks of hewn stone." | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Cartography And Topography Architecture | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Burgess, James | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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