India - Udaipur to Pushkar
January 26th 2011 DAY 17 25th January 2011
Our driver offered to drive to Pushkar via Chittorgarh so that we could see the battle scarred Fort. It was the mightiest of Rajastans forts and therefore the target for successive invasions in 1303, 1535 before it was finally captured in 1567. The first siege by Sultan Khilji in 1303 resulted in over 13,000 women committing jaubar which is a form of mass suicide by burn
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