Bagh-e-Naya-Qila

Bagh-e-Naya-Qila

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will use Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to  map the contours of the area around the Bagh-e-Naya-Quila excavated garden inside the Golconda Fort. It has roped in the India Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) to carry out the mapping.

Bagh-e-Naya-Qila:

➧The Naya Qila garden inside Golconda Fort was Built by successive rulers of the Deccan and is one of the few symmetrical gardens extant.

➧There are strange figures and animals worked out of stone and stucco on the walls of the outer fort facing the Naya Qila.

➧In 2014, when the ASI excavated the area after diverting the water flow, it discovered water channels, settlement tanks, walkways, fountains, gravity pumps, and a host of other garden relics.

Golconda Fort

Golkonda Fort:

➧It was the capital of the medieval sultanate of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and is situated 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Hyderabad.

➧Golkonada Fort was first built by the Kakatiya dynasty as part of their western defenses along the lines of the Kondapalli Fort.

➧The fort was rebuilt and strengthened by Rani Rudra Devi and her successor Prataparudra.

Later, the fort came under the control of the Musunuri Nayaks, who defeated the Tughlaqi army occupying Warangal.

➧It was ceded by the Musunuri Kapaya Naidu to the Bahmani Sultanate as part of a treaty in 1364.