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Description: | Water-colour plan of the Fort at Nurpur in Sind (Pakistan) by Henry Francis Ainslie (c.1805-1879), January 1852. Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'Noorpoor-ke-gote, Sindh. Fort of Noorpoor on the Indus.'
Nurpur is situated on the west side of a hill which rises steeply from the surrounding plains. It was originally called Dhameri or Temmery but renamed in honour of the emperor Nur-ud-din Jahangir. The fort was begun by one of the local Rajas and finished in the time of Aurangzeb (reigned 1658-1707). It contains a wooden temple and excavations in 1886 revealed the existence of a stone temple of much earlier date than the fort. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Ainslie, Henry Francis (c.1805-1879) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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