Original map courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.(Click to enlarge).
For the original map, see link. As always, the ones I could locate on Google Maps from the map above are marked in blue, those that I found listed in the map but not through satellite are in red.
Lakki halli fort ruins – 13.9285273,76.4455748 I am not quite certain about this one. There does seem to be some sort of wall surrounding the settlement.
Clustering of Forts
There are clearly three different clusters of forts in this map. The top half of the map contains two clusters, one to the west of the hill range and the other to the east. A thin ridge connects the two clusters and a bulge of plains that also extends southwards with Gadag at the center of this plain region.
The third southern cluster is obviously meant to protect access to the Tungabhadra river south of the cluster.
Thanks to Siddeshwar for pointing out some of the forts listed in this post and for putting up pictures from his travels to those forts at his blog.
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.
Original map courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.(Click to enlarge)
The nine forts around Davangere and Chitradurga and as always the map on top marks the forts I could locate on Google Maps in blue and those I could not, in red.
There is a fort wall on the south of the town and and south east along the lake. Also refer to the book The Nawabs of Savanur By Krishnaji Nageshrao Chitnis.
The fortified defenses around Belgaum are helped by the natural fortification surrounding them. In all directions there is a range or a ridge that blocks direct access into the flat area in which Belgaum is situated.
Saw this fort during a Delhi-Bangalore flight while in a holding pattern around Bangalore’s Devanahalli Airport. Luckily, the plane did not take a circuitous route from this hillock to the runway so I was able to remember the directions to the fort.
Makalidurga
This also a good opportunity to point out two other forts in the area.
Original map courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.(Click to enlarge)
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.
Over 1300 Forts Documented 
