September 10, 2013

Heritage Gwalior - 16th Century - End of Romance, Begining of a Long Doom

Few years after Man Singh’s death the Fort eventually fell to Ibrahim Lodhi and soon went to Babur, the first emperor of the Mughal Dynasty. The buildings and palaces made my Man Singh where music, beauty and love once thrived were converted into prisons and torture houses. A beautiful rounded “Bawri”, a stepped well, made by Man Singh to collect water for the population living on the Fort, was converted into state prison. This stepped well is accompanied by a large open hall with 84 pillars. The hall  was later used as a prison by Aurangzeb and pillars were  used to keep the 52 kings who  were later freed with Sikh Guru Hargobind Singh Sahib.






The indoor bath for queens at one of the underground floors which used to be filled with fragrance and flower petals at one time, was used as torture dungeon for royal prisoners, mainly Murad by his brother Aurangzeb, who later killed him on the reasons of treason. 




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