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Description: | Pencil drawing from the MacKenzie Collection, of two hills in Golconda by an unknown artist, c. 1797.
Golconda in Andhra Pradesh was the centre of a rich and powerful state formed on the disintegration of the Bahmani kingdom. There is a fort here situated on an isolated granite hill which was a thriving commercial centre in the 13th and 14th centuries, and later became a flourishing centre under the Qutb Shahi Sultans in the 16th century. The outer curtain wall of the fort is 4.8 kilometres, or 3 miles in circumference and incorporates a total of 87 bastions. Within this wall is a second double wall which circles the town and an inner wall which encloses boulders and other natural landscape features. A number of interesting buildings are situated at the fort including the Diwan's Palace and the Jami Masjid. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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