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Description: | Photograph of the ramparts of the Fort at Chitradurga, taken by Henry Dixon around 1868, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. The hill fort at Chitradurga is situated in a rocky landscape north-west of Bangalore. The fortifications were built by the Naiks Pallegars in the 17th century. In 1779 Haider Ali captured the mud fort and erected a stone fortress. This Kallina Kote or Palace of Stone has many massive gateways with bent passageways, a palace, a mosque, a granaries, oil pits and water tanks. Inside the fort complex there are fourteen old temples. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Dixon, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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