Ahmednagar Fort

Ahmednagar Fort, also called Bhuikot Killa, stands near the Bhingar Nala close to Ahmednagar. The Ahmednagar Sultanate ruled from here, and the fort was taken by British forces in 1803, in the course of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. Under British rule it served as a prison, and today it is administered by the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army.

Accounts from 1803 describe a round fort ringed by 24 bastions, entered by a single main gate, with three small sally ports. A stone-faced ditch about 18 feet wide held water all the way round, the rampart was of black dressed stone and the parapet of plastered brick. The main gate faced the town, or pettah, and was reached by a removable wooden bridge; it was said that an iron trough could be set on the bridge, filled with charcoal and lit to stop an attacking force.