The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c25.33

c25.33

I find from a list referring to the reign of ‘Ālamgīr (B. M. Or. 1641 fol. 52*b*), that there were forty-two imperial forts. I cannot read all the names but I have made out the following. 1) Shāhjahānābād, 2) Akbarābād, 3) Lāhor, 4) Kābul, 5) Kashmīr, 6) Aṭak, 7) Allahābād, 8) Ajmer, 9) Jhānsī, 10) Gwāliyar, 11) Kālinjar, 12) Sitāpur, 13) Tārāgaṛh, 14) Bargaṛh, 15) Chāndū, 16) Ujjain, 17) Rāesen, 18) Rānīgaṛh, 19) Dohad, 20) Kākrūn, 21) Ranthambhor, 22) Ruhtās Khūrd, 23) Sūrat, 24) Kāngrah, 25) Munger, 26) Jodhpur, 27) Mairtah, 28) Sāmbhar, 29) Ghaznain, 30) Pishāwar, 31) Zafarābād, 32) Shergaṛh, 33) Lankarkot. The identity of Nos 12, 13, 14, 18, 32, 33, is doubtful; the others are well-enough known places. However, this list, although containing as many as forty-two places, must be looked on as very incomplete. In it are included none of the strongest places in the Dakhin, where to say the least, fortresses were as numerous as in Hindūstān.