Kalinjar Fort in Bundelkhand: The Hill Fortress That Outlasted Every Siege in Medieval India
The hill that refused to fallSher Shah Suri, the man who had driven the Mughal emperor Humayun out of Hindustan and built the Grand Trunk Road across the subcontinent, died at Kalinjar in 1545 from a gunpowder explosion inside his own siege camp. He had taken nearly every fort he…
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