Ancient Ruin Fort in Desert || Unseen Pakistan || Mauj Garh Fort Cholistan || Eng.Sub

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Mauj Garh Fort is 90KM from Bahawalpur and about 60Km from Yazman Mandi,
Road is good for car and bike,
The history behind the beautiful Ruined Fort is that it was initially created in the 9th century by a Hindu ruler.’ This huge fort was made to commemorate the king of current day Jamshedpur and Bahawalpur, Raja Deoraj Bhatti. It was then captured by Abbasi rulers in the 18th century, after which it was rebuilt. Eventually, a fight ensued over ownership of the fort between the Abbasi ruler Nawab Sadiq Muhammad and Bahawal Khan in the late 1700s till 1804, when the son of Nawab Muhammad took control of the fort. By then, it had been heavily damaged. The fort has since been on the verge of collapse with no restoration in sight.
Mauj Garh Fort is undoubtedly forgotten within the consciousness of our own history. I don’t even remember reading about it during Pakistan studies. Even many residents of the cities surrounding it from Ahmedpur, Yazman Mandi and even Bahawalpur weren’t aware of its existence, or why it stood there. While I was looking up the forts history I saw how little people knew about it, and it broke my heart. This massive landmark in Pakistan is crying out for restoration and the adoration it deserves. Everyone needs to go visit it. If you’re ever in the area, it’s worth it to see how centuries old architecture can still make a design statement today.
There wasn’t much of anything left on the inside, except for our marvel and questions about its architectural wonder and history. The walls covered 500 meters and stood at 20 meters high, barren with buried stories,
The fort lies in the eastern side of the empty Cholistan desert, abandoned with all of its history and charisma within,
The Cholistan desert, or Rohi, is the western part of the Thar desert of the sub-continent which lies in modern Pakistan. There is archaeological evidence that this area was once watered by the Hakra river and was home to an Indus Valley culture based on agriculture. This river, the bed of which can be seen clearly etched into the desert landscape, supported settlements from ca. 4000 BC until around 600 B.C. when the river changed its flow and subsequently vanished underground. Since then the Cholistan area has been a stark and inhospitable desert environment at the edge of empires.
The medieval forts of the Cholistan desert landscape are a group of up to a dozen structures, some standing and some deteriorated. Derawar fort is the best surviving example of this series of historic forts, some dating from pre-Mughal times, but all restored and expanded from the 16th to 18th century by powerful local clans. Other forts include (roughly from north to south) Meergarh, Jaangarh, Marotgarh, Maujgarh, Dingarh, Khangarh, Khairgarh, Bijnotgarh and Islamgarh.These structures form a network across the desert landscape. They served to protect and enable the desert caravan routes; mercantile routes from central Asia to the heartland of the sub-continent and pilgrimage routes between Mecca and India.
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