Mangalgad, also known as Kangori, is a fort in
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
near the village of
Dudhanewadi.
Kangori, or Mangalgad Fort, is in the
Mahad sub-division about east by south from Mahad town.
How to reach
The fort is built on the top of a steep and treeless spur of the
Sahyadris, high, and is reached by a narrow and rugged path about two miles long. The fort is from east to west and from north to south.
It takes about 2 hours trekking time to reach the fort from the base village Dudhanewadi.
History
Mangalgad was built by Chandrarao More of
Jawli. It was one of seven forts captured by Shivaji in 1648. It was the place of confinement of Chitursing the brother of the Raja of Satara, from 1812 till his death in 1818. In 1817 Cornets Hunter and Morrison, two English officers on the Madras establishment, on their way from Hyderabad to Poona with a small escort were caught at Uruli twenty miles east of Poona, and imprisoned here. Some time after, by Gokhla's orders, they were removed to
Vasota in
Satara, and, on the destruction of that fort in April 1817, they were restored to freedom. In 1818 Kangori was taken by Colonel Prother, after the fall of
Raigad fort.
Places to see
The buildings and the gateway are in ruins but a part of the rampart remains. Within the rampart is a ruined temple and a rock-cut cistern, but no building of any size or interest. Mangalgad consists of a single temple, called
Kangori Devi Temple, with
cisterns
A cistern (; , ; ) is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. To prevent leakage, the interior of the cistern is often lined with hydraulic plaster.
Cisterns are disti ...
at the top. The
wada and prison are both in ruins.
References
See also
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List of forts in Maharashtra
The Forts of Maharashtra are often referred to as ''Green Canyon of India''.
This is a list of forts in Maharashtra, a state of India.(District)
* Harshal Fort (Nashik district, Nashik)
* Agashi Fort
* Ahmednagar Fort
* Mandar Fort
* Ajinky ...
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List of forts in India
This is a list of forts in India.
Andhra Pradesh
Coastal Region
* Anvika Fort
* Addanki Fort - Prakasam district
* Bellamkonda Fort - Guntur district
* Bobbili Fort – Vizianagaram district
* Dharanikota Fort – Guntur district
* Du ...
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Baji Prabhu Deshpande
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Marathi People
The Marathi people (; Marathi language, Marathi: , ''Marāṭhī lōk'') or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, ''Marāṭhī'') are an Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India. They ...
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Maratha Navy
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List of Maratha dynasties and states
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Maratha War of Independence
The Deccan wars were a series of military conflicts between the Mughal Empire and the descendants of the Maratha ruler Shivaji from the time of Shivaji's death in 1680 until the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707. Shivaji was a central figur ...
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Battles involving the Maratha Empire
This is a list of the battles involving the Maratha Confederacy, and earlier the Maratha Rebellion under Shivaji till its dissolution in 1818.
References
Sources
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Further reading
* "The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India ...
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Maratha Army
The Maratha Army was the land-based armed forces of the Maratha Confederacy, which existed from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries in the Indian subcontinent.
17th century
Shivaji, The great the founder of Maratha Kingdom, raised a small ...
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Maratha titles
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Military history of India
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Buildings and structures of the Maratha Empire
Forts in Raigad district
Forts in Maharashtra
16th-century forts in India
Tourist attractions in Raigad district
Rock-cut architecture of India
Former populated places in India
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