The Business Forts

Manjarabad Fort owes its name to a single foggy inspection visit. When Tipu Sultan arrived to review his newly completed…

Manjarabad Fort was built in the shadow of a losing treaty. In 1792, Tipu Sultan signed away roughly half his…

Mirjan Fort was built, according to the most widely told account, by a woman who ruled coastal Karnataka for more…

Moti Daman Fort isn’t a ruin you wander through — it’s a functioning administrative city that happens to sit inside…

Naldurg Fort has a feature so unusual that a veteran archaeologist called it one of the finest land forts in…

Yellur Fort wasn’t built to be a capital or a royal residence — it was built to watch. Perched at…

Kondaveedu Fort has changed hands so many times across nine centuries that keeping track of its rulers reads almost like…

Kondapalli Fort started life not as a military stronghold at all, but as a leisure retreat — a recreational palace…

Konda Reddy Fort takes its name not from the empire that built it, but from a prisoner who was once…

Kolaba Fort was the very last fort Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ever began building — construction started on March 19, 1680,…