📽️ Kangra Kila |Full View In FHD Built around 3,500 years ago| Kangra Fort Information In Punjabi

#KangraFort, Once a Trove of Royal Treasures, Withstood 52 Attacks but Crumbled to Nature’s Wrath

#Kangra Fort The Kangra Fort is located 20 kilometers from the town of #Dharamsala on the outskirts of the town of Kangra, India.
The fort is also India’s oldest dated fort,  said to be built around 3,500 years ago by Maharaja Susharma Chandra, a descendant of the Katoch family.

History
Laxmi Narayan Temple, Kangra Fort.

Statue of Rishabhnatha inside the Ambika Mata Temple at top of Kangra Fort.

The Kangra Fort was built by the royal Rajputfamily of Kangra State (the Katoch dynasty), which traces its origins to the ancient Trigarta Kingdom, mentioned in the Mahabharata epic. It is the largest fort in the Himalayas and probably the oldest dated fort in India.

The fort of Kangra resisted Akbar's siege in 1615. However, Akbar's son Jahangir successfully subdued the fort in 1620.[1]Kangra was at the time ruled by Raja Hari Chand Katoch of Kangra (also known as Raja Hari Chand II)[2] Mughal Emperor Jahangirwith the help of Suraj Mal garrisoned with his troops.

The Katoch Kings repeatedly looted Mughal controlled regions, weakening the Mughal control, aiding in the decline of Mughal power, Raja Sansar Chand II succeeded in recovering the ancient fort of his ancestors, in 1789. Maharaja Sansar Chand fought multiple battles with Gurkhas on one side and Sikh King Maharaja Ranjit Singh on the other. Sansar Chand used to keep his neighboring Kings jailed, and this led to conspiracies against him. During a battle between the Sikhs and Katochs, the gates of the fort had been kept open for supplies

Battle of Kangada and the subsequent capture of the fort by Nepalese forces

The Gorkhali army entered the opened scarcely armed gates in 1806. This forced an alliance between Maharaja Sansar Chand and Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Because of the insufficiency of the need within the fort after a long Gurkha-Sikh War and unable to procure any, the Gurkhas left the Fort. The Fort remained with the Katochs until 1828 when Ranjit Singh annexed it after Sansar Chand's death. The fort was finally taken by the British after the Sikh war of 1846.

A British garrison occupied the fort until it was heavily damaged in an earthquake on 4 April 1905