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Rohtas Fort Qila Rohtas is a sixteenth century stronghold situated close to the city of Jhelum in the Pakistani region of Punjab.The fortification was worked amid the rule of the Pashtun lord Sher Shah Suri in the vicinity of 1541 and 1548 with a specific end goal to help quell the insubordinate clans of the Potohar area of northern Punjab that were faithful to the Mughal crown. The fortress is one of the biggest and most considerable in the subcontinent. Rohtas Fort was never raged by compel, and has survived strikingly in place.

The stronghold is known for its extensive protective dividers, and a few stupendous doors. Rohtas Fort was engraved by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997 for being an "outstanding case of the Muslim military engineering of Central and South Asia."

Location

The fortress lies eight kilometers south of the Grand Trunk Road. It is roughly 16 km NW of Jhelum, and is close to the city of Dina. The noteworthy Shahrah-e-Azam street once passed contiguous the external northern mass of the post.

Rohtas Fort was based on a slope sitting above a canyon where the Kahan waterway meets a regular stream called Parnal Khas inside the Tilla Jogian Range. The post is around 300 feet (91 m) over its environment. It is 2,660 feet (810 m) above ocean level and covers a territory of 12.63 sections of land (51,100 m2)

Background

The Fort was dispatched by Sher Shah Suri, originator of the Sur Empire. The fortress was intended to obstruct the advances of Mughal head Humayun, who had been banished to Persia following his annihilation at the Battle of Kannauj. The fortress possesses a key position between the precipitous area of Afghanistan and the fields of Punjab, and was proposed to keep the Mughal sovereign from coming back to India.

The outline of Rothas Fort worked by Sher Shah Suri amid Sur Empire

The stronghold was additionally intended to smother the nearby Gakhar clans of the Potohar district. The Gakhar clans were partners of the Mughal Empire, and declined to perceive the suzerainty of Sher Shah Suri.

History

Development of the post started in 1541, under the heading of Todar Mal Khatri working for the Sur Empire, and was finished in 1548. The post's development was at first moderated by the refusal of nearby Gakhar clans to fill in as workers at the site. Mughal chiefs in the end expanded wage rates, making various Gakhars join the stronghold's development endeavors

Mughal period

The stronghold was soon surrendered to Mughal head Humayun in 1555, after the nearby representative, Tatar Khan Khasi, forsook the post in front of the Mughal armed force's advances.

The stronghold lost quite a bit of its hugeness as the fortification's motivation of quelling star Mughal Gakhar tribesmen, and additionally the keeping the arrival of Emperor Humayun, was never again required. Further, the development of the adjacent Attock Fort in the 1580s by the Emperor Akbar better served Mughal interests. Rohtas Fort, incidentally, came to fill in as capital of the Gakhar clans that it had at first been intended to curb, and was not required as a military battalion as the nearby Gakhar clans stayed faithful to the Mughal crown.

The stronghold stayed being used amid the Mughal time, and was utilized consistently until 1707, however it was not well known with the Mughal rulers since it needed vast patio nurseries and the kind of terrific engineering found at Mughal-period posts, for example, at the Lahore Fort. Remilitarization of the post happened in the winding down days of the Mughal realm, as the adversary Sikh Empire started to extend in the locale. Nadir Shah of Persia and Afghan ruler Ahmed Shah Abdali had both stayed outdoors at the stronghold in their campaigns in the Punjab amid the disappearing days of the Mughal realm.

In 1825, the Sikh powers of Gurmukh Singh Lamba caught the fortification from Gakhar chieftain Nur Khan Rohtas was likewise from that point utilized for authoritative purposes by the Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh.

Doors

The Rohtas Fort has the accompanying 12 doors. Every one of them are worked in ashlar stone.

Sohail

Shah Chandwali

Kabuli

Shishi

Langar Khani

Talaqi

Mori or Kashmiri

Khwas Khani

Gatali

Tulla Mori

Pippli

Sar

Royal mosque

This little mosque known as Shahi masjid is close to the Kabuli entryway. It has a supplication chamber and a little patio. It is the most embellished of the first structures of the stronghold. To be ever prepared if there should arise an occurrence of assault, stairs lead specifically from the patio of this mosque to the highest point of Kabuli Gate.

The supplication chamber is 19.2 meter long and 7.3 meter profound. It is partitioned into 3 break even with chambers. There are arches from within however from the outside no vaults can be seen. There is a little room toward the finish of these three chambers. This room was for the Pesh Imam (Prayer Leader). This room has a little domed rooftop from within however no external vault. There is no place for bathing (tidying up before petitions) in the mosque. This mosque is incorporated with the fortress divider i.e. fighters strolled over the mosque's rooftop. The external mass of the mosque is simply the stronghold divider.

On the external mass of the mosque are delightful round plans in which Islamic verses are composed in Naqsh content. These verses are encompassed by a Lilly going around the Naqsh content. The Lilly configuration was later utilized by Mughals in Tomb of Jahangir, Tomb of Nur Jehan and the Shah Burj Gate in Lahore Fort. The plan appears to have been duplicated from the coins utilized as a part of that time.

Rani Mahal

The Rani Mahal (Queens castle) is close Haveli Man Singh. It is a one-story structure. It initially had four rooms however just room stays standing today. The establishment of the four rooms can in any case be seen today.

It isn't a unique piece of the fortification and is a case of Hindu engineering and worked around an indistinguishable time from the Haveli Man Singh.

The room as yet standing today is around 20 feet (6.1 m) high and perfectly brightened within and outside. The top of the arch like room resembles a bloom. Within the rooftop is designed with blossoms, geometrical examples and phony windows. The room is around 8 by 8 feet (2.4 by 2.4 m).