About the Book: The Forts Of Bundelkhand
Kaleidoscoed in this books is a landscape of history, culture and lore. In the
bastions and ramparts of the citadels in Bundelkhand, is the setting of events
resonating in thought, letter and song. A range of history, culture and lore is
chronicled. When Ran Lakshmi Bai rode out of here citadel at Jhansi to engage
the British, a legend was born to inspire an entire national movement; Kalinjar
fort defied Mahmud of Ghazni and daunted Delhi's formidable Sultan Shere Shah
Suri; and the loftiness of Datia, Orcha and Deogarh is among the most venerable
of the country's heritage. Time