Rajgarh is spread over a vast area and different parts of the fort are not completely connected to each other. Seethesemapsforall the portions visible on Wikimapia.
The last few weeks of work on the Jhansi AMS map has finally paid off. I’ve managed to locate almost all the forts that were marked on that grid as well as locate a few others that were not on that map.
Original map courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.(Click to enlarge)
To start with, the red marks are forts that are on the map but could not be found through the satellite images. That, as always, does not mean that there are no forts at those locations or that the forts do not exist anymore. It simply means that unless someone checks those locations out on the ground, nothing can be said about those forts with certainty. The blue marks are the forts that were found through the satellite.
In all, I found 30 forts and fortifications. To help load the page faster, I am excluding the embedded maps for all of these. The links will take you conveniently to the forts on Wikimapia.
Orchha – 25.3502315, 78.6445892
Orchha deserves a complete post by itself because of the unique placement of the fort and the massive outer fortification towards the west.
Continuing the fort mapping started with the map of Hubli, here is the map of the region around Jhansi with all the forts marked. The sheer number of fortifications amazes me and yet it does not surprise me because of the significant role this region has played in the military history of the country.
Original map courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.(Click to enlarge)
The blue mark is at Samthar, a post that remains a work-in-progress.