ROHTAK FORT

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ROHTAK ANCIENT FORT -


A centuries old fort was situated at Rohtak, in present Quilla Mohlla. That fort was built by Shekhs of Yaman under Kazi Sultan Muhammad Surkh during Ghori Dynasty kings. The then emperor Delhi, Mahmud Tughlaq posted two brothers named Malik Idrees and Mubariz Khan at that fort in 1400 AD. The fort of Rohtak was besieged by Sayad Khizr Khan in 1410, which could only succeed after a long seize of six months. Another mention of Rohtak Fort is found in Gazetteer of East India Company, where it is described as "On the east of Rohtak is a large brick fort, but the walls now so feeble to sustain the fire of a six pounder". But now no traces of that historical fort are surviving and a very congested habitation of immigrants has occupied every inch of land of that Fort of Rohtak. Photographs of Fort Rohtak, taken by Joseph David Beglar in 1870 AD, is preserved in British Library Records, in which a portion of southern wall of that crumbling Fort is only visible. Also Rohtak become a frontier between Sikh and Maratha Powers after the disintegration of the Mughal Empire in 1700s.

God knows how many monuments of haryana have have been destroyed or are under threat of destruction. If action is not taken now , we will probably see them only in pictures and paintings.






 

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