The Indian Fort - A Structural Engineering Marvel
Er. Vivek Abhyankar writes on the amazing architecture and planning, structural design, and performance, of many forts in India, along with their brief history, type, components, functioning, planning, and construction methodology. This article is particularly informative and useful to those who are working in the field of restoration of monumental structures, engineering archaeology, and ancient engineering.
It is very difficult to encompass several aspects and dimensions of historic forts like ‘Pratapgarh’, ‘Rajgarh’, ‘Raigarh’, ‘Sajjangarh’, ‘Sinddudurg’ etc, especially from their structural perspective. Several kings and kingdoms that spread from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Kabul till Arunachal, built forts for establishing secure empires. Several weapons, tools and techniques of wars were developed under the shelter of these forts. The construction of these forts took several years to complete due to non-availability of modern technology, materials, skilled workers, and attacks from enemies. There are more than 1000 forts in India and whatever was built has stood for centuries, facing the vagaries of weather.
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NBM&CW March 2022