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The Gobindgarh Fort in Amritsar

  • Army Old Cantt Rd, Putligarh, Amritsar, Punjab 143001, India
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Palazzi, Ville e Castelli
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Inglese

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The Gobindgarh Fort, built in 1809, was a massive structure of limestone and brick with iron-studded gates. Much of it now stands in ruins. A portion was deliberately demolished by the British, always anxious to decimate traces of the foe’s grandeur, after the two Anglo-Sikh Wars. Indeed, most of the fortifications that Ranjit put in place in Amritsar were ‘de-militarised’ by the British.

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