{"id":129,"date":"2022-03-26T10:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2022-03-26T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:11:45","slug":"chittorgarh-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/chittorgarh-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"Chittorgarh Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fort of Chittorgarh holds a special place in Indian history. This fort in Rajasthan, built by the Maurya rulers in the 7th century AD, is also one of India&#8217;s largest forts. It is a superb example of Rajputana architecture, spanning 692 acres of land.<\/p>\n<p>Today,<a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\"> Chittorgarh Fort<\/a> is a tourist site rich in the legendary legends of Rajput Rajas and Kings from the past. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons why tourists travel here in large numbers every year. Chittorgarh Fort was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s interesting is that Chittorgarh Fort was once also known as the Water Fort as it had about 84 water bodies but this was way back in history. However, today, out of these 84 water bodies only about 22 are left.<\/p>\n<p>The Chittorgarh Fort is also believed to be a haunted site as a great many lives were lost here due to the Rajput Pratha (a ritual or tradition) of Jauhar. Due to these talks going on, several people avoid visiting the fort during the evening hours.<\/p>\n<p>The best time to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Chittorgarh Fort<\/a> is between the months of October and March. During this time, the overall climatic conditions are suitable for sightseeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History of Chittorgarh Fort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The History of Mewar and its rule by the Sisodia Dynasty can be traced as far back as 566 AD. Bappa Rawal (734-753 AD) the legendary founder of the Sisodia dynasty conquered Chittor from Maurya dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries the Rajputs managed to recover their fort twice from Allauddin Khilji and Bahadur Shah of Malwa but in the third conquest by Akbar, the fort finally got annexed to the Mughal empire.<\/p>\n<p>Rajputs preferred death to dishonor. Chittorgarh Fort is the living memory of the valiant kings like Rana Kumbha, Rana Sangha, Maharana Pratap and sacrifice of brave ladies like Rani Padmini (also known as Rani Padmavati) and Panna Dhai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fort of Chittorgarh holds a special place in Indian history. This fort in Rajasthan, built by the Maurya rulers in the 7th century AD, is also one of India&#8217;s largest forts. It is a superb example of Rajputana architecture, spanning 692 acres of land. Today, Chittorgarh Fort is a tourist site rich in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rajasthan-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}