JAMGAON FORT
FORT WITH 19 TOWERS
My son Ameya loves going to treks and exploring new places with history attached , May vacations are the best times to do these activities. After his Rajgad trek .. I decide to take him to Jamgaon fort.
This fort which is now being used as a school. Probably because it is at ground level .. to treks required. Hon. Mahadji Shinde's descendants donated it to the Rayat Shikshan Sanstha. Now you can see classes being held inside the fort.
The first thing that caught me was that his fort has 19 buruj (tower) , curved structure that you see below.
Rayat Sanstha is doing pretty good job with maintaining the interiors.
Mahadji Shinde
Wounded in the bloodshed at Panipat, he inherited the throne. He brought in new methods of warfare. He was a part of the Maratha Army that conquered the Red Fort in 1769. By 1792 Sindhias triumph was complete. His hold over the Maratha Empire in the name of the Peshwa was sealed and defacto over the nominal empire of the Mughals. His name and fame had brought the once proud Mughals and Afghans to their knees and humbled the power of the otherwise victorious British Empire. He had to leave this world in 1795 at a considerably young age.
How do you Reach Jamgaon.
Jamgaon is just 26 kms before reaching Ahmednagar.
From Pune take the Nagar Road and keep going and cross Shikrapur - Ranjangaon - Karegaon - Shirur - take a left to go Ralegan Siddhi(Anna Hazare) - panoli - parner - Jamgaon.
It's 103 Kms from Pune Raliway Station.
Sharing some photographs.
Entrance 
From the entrance
100 year old bullock Cart
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