DEVELOPMENT

THROUGH
THE YEARS

• BADAL MAHAL HISTORY AND LINAGE

STRUCTURES
The palace has a grand arched entrance from the west. The DOLA TANK
remnant of the two storied structure, pillared hall,structure with
domical roof on either side of the gateway in addition to the large
courtyard at the center peat of the architectural grandure of the Mos probably the fort was raised by

RAISEN FORT
mahal. It was among the 4 hindu palaces built under the hindu HINDU RULERS some hindu King, preferably rai singh.
rulers tentatively before 1234 A.D. (BEFORE 1234 A.D) The name raisen appears to be the
• DOLA DOLI TANK DOLI TANK distortion of the name Raavasini or Rai
Singh.
This tank is present at the western end below the Bala
TANK NO. 2- RANI TANK Fort and is picturesquely situated . Strategically speaking it
It was captured by a Delhi slave sultan
is said to be the weakest point of the fort .
TANK NO. 3- MOTIYA TANK ILTUTMUSH
(1234-35 A.D)
Iltutmish. But soon after lost the
thrown.
TANK NO. 4- SAGAR TANK • MOTIA TANK
TANK NO. 5- DOLA DOLI TANK To the east of the college mosque there is a motia tank
built specially for the use of the royal family. It is about
100ft long and 80ft deep. The fort was captured by another
ALAUDDIN KHILJI
RAJIV GHANDHI PROUDYOGIKI (1291-93 A.D)
delhi sultan Alauddin Khilji but he
also was dethroned soon.
VISHWAVIDYALAYA • RANI TANK
Rani tank is another tank basically used by the ladies of
(School of environment and science ) harem.
Rana sanga was the father in law of
Silhadi the successor ruler of Raisen.
LOCATION • SAGAR TANK
Below the twelve pillared building and
RANA SANGA
(1571-1519 A.D)
The Raos of raisen paid tribute to the
Rana.
near the building housing presently the
iron canon balls is the Sagar tank. The During 1520 silhadi came to own the
baston near the tank accommodates fort. He was a tomar or a Purabia
the largest canon “garbhagiravan”. SILHADI Rajput. He came from a wrestler family.
(1520-1532A.D) He build the gargha and a mosque after
Raisen Fort is one of the unexplored
forts in Madhya Pradesh. It is • PAMEYA TEMPLE converting to islam under pressure by
bahadur shah. Under his rule the first
situated in the town of Raisen which This temple was tentatively built by Jauhar happened.
is about 24 kms from Sanchi, and 44 the hindu rulers before 1234 A.D. The
kms from Bhopal Junction. The fort founder ruler of the fort was Rai Singh. BAHADUR SHAH Bahadur Shah dethrowned silhadi due
stand on an outlier of a The temple is dedicated to lord (1532 A.D) to his hatred against him . His conduct
comparatively high oblong sand RANI TANK
Ganesha. wit his kingdome and the women that
stone rock about 594meters above he captured in his harem was not
the sea level and is about 150 meters
above the town of Raisen. • DARGAH acceptable by bahadur shah.
MADAGAN TANK
The dargah was made by Siladi
SHER SHAH SURI After bahadur shahs death sher shah
who converted to islam under
(1543A.D) suri took the throne. Under his rule the
pressure by bahadur shah.
second Jauhar occurred.
Tentative time period for the
construction of the dargah is
during 1532 A.D During Akbars time the Raisen fort
AKBAR was considered as one of the famous
GOLAVALI TANK hill forts of Hindustan, which in
(1571A.D)
possession of Solanki Rajupts, formed
a Sarkar in the subha of Ujjain.
MOTIA TANK
STRUCTURES