Qualla: Sitabuldi Fort https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/b/0/sitabuldi-fort-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sitabuldi Fort https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort Sitabuldi Fort: Introduction https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort/ Photo credit Subhanshu Dhanraj, CC BY-SA 4.0. "Tell him to charge at his peril," Colonel Scott ordered when Captain Fitzgerald begged one last time to lead his cavalry against the closing Maratha lines. "At my peril be it," Fitzgerald replied, and spurred his horse forward into the smoke. That exchange, shouted across the rocky hilltop of Sitabuldi on 27 November 1817, captures something essential about this fort perched above Nagpur: it has always been a place where desperate decisions carried outsized consequences. Today the twin hillocks sit in the commercial heart of Maharashtra's third-largest city, hemmed in by markets and traffic, a military installation where the Indian Army's flags still fly above walls that once ran with blood.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/b/0/sitabuldi-fort-wp/tgb0-sitabuldi-fort-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sitabuldi Fort: Two Hills, Two Names https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort/ Photo credit Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sitabuldi Fort straddles a pair of rocky hillocks in central Nagpur: Mothi Tekdi, the "big hill," and Choti Tekdi, the "small hill" in Marathi. Tradition traces the name to two Yadava brothers, Shitlaprasad and Badriprasad Gawali, who ruled the area in the 17th century. Their dom...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/b/0/sitabuldi-fort-wp/tgb0-sitabuldi-fort-two-hills-two-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Sitabuldi Fort: The Night the Arabs Charged https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort/ Photo credit Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0. By November 1817, the Maratha confederacy was fracturing under British pressure, but it was not yet broken. Mudhoji II Bhonsle, known as Appa Sahib, had ascended the throne of Nagpur just a year earlier. When the Peshwa sent him a ceremonial robe commissioning him as Senapati of ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/b/0/sitabuldi-fort-wp/tgb0-sitabuldi-fort-the-night-the-arabs-charged.mp3 0:06 3 full Sitabuldi Fort: Fitzgerald's Charge https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort/ Photo credit Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0. With Maratha cavalry closing from all sides and Arab fighters ransacking the camp below, the situation looked terminal. Captain Fitzgerald had been requesting permission to charge repeatedly, and each time Scott refused. When the final request came, Scott's grudging consent carri...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/b/0/sitabuldi-fort-wp/tgb0-sitabuldi-fort-fitzgeralds-charge.mp3 0:06 4 full Sitabuldi Fort: Garrison and City https://qualla.com/sitabuldi-fort/ Photo credit Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0. Under the British Raj, Sitabuldi became the anchor of military power south of the Narmada River. The flat ground north of the hills was leveled for an arsenal, with quarters for troops, stables for cavalry, parade grounds, and bazaars spreading into what is now the Chhaoni area. ...

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