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LOCATION: The Ankai Tankai forts are located 10 km from Manmad in Nashik District,Maharashtra.
Height: About 900 feet from base (3200 feet from sea-level)
Important Places to see:
1) Jain caves
2) Agasti rushi temple (Ashram)
3) Old building remains at top of Ankai Fort
About fort:
Well constructed steps lead to ancient Buddhist caves situated at the base of the Tankai fort. Beautiful sculptures on the wall, carving on pillars and roof, a duplex cave with gallery, a durga godess temple in the cave is worth looking. Regular steps from Jain caves leads to a main entrance beautifully hidden in fortification walls of Ankai-Tankai forts.
After entering these through entrance, there are two ways diverted to 1)Ankai Fort at right and 2)Tankai Fort to right.
Ankai: After entering through first entrance there is series of gates to reach top of fort.On the way old Buddha cave is there. In cave, on the back wall of the shrine is a three-headed bust, or trimurti, resembles to smaller Elura caves. Number of bats can be seen in this cave.
Tankai : After a first common entrance, the route forks into two directions. One goes to Fort Ankai and the other to Fort Tankai. Steps lead to the damaged entrance of Fort Tankai. Fort Tankai is a huge plateau with a lake and old Mahadev Mandir, ruins of the construction and a bastion.
These were said to be the strongest hill forts captured by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1635. They command a wide view of Khandesh and Godavari valleys.Vultures and black face langur monkeys can be seen nearby forts.
History
In 1635 Ankai-Tankai fort was captured by Shah Jahan's general Khan Khanan. In 1665 Thevenot mentions Ankai as a stage between Surat and Aurangabad.
During the last Maratha war Lieutenant-Colonel McDowell's detachment came to Ankai on the 5th of April 1818. On the previous day negotiations had been opened with the commandant whose master, a chief in the neighborhood, had sent orders for surrender. On arriving before the fort, as he found matters not fully settled, Lieutenant-Colonel McDowell ordered a pair of six-pounders to the gate of the village at the foot of the hill. This was instantly opened and surrender effected, and a. party from the detachment climbed the lofty battlements of Ankai, and without striking a blow hoisted the British flag on the summit. Garrison retired wining fort without spending a single bullet. The Garrison amounted to about 300 men with about forty guns. The surrender of Ankai was of great importance to the British-raj, as, if it had held out, even for a short time of the numerous other forts would probably have been encouraged to offer resistance. Within the fort were found forty pieces of ordnance with a large store of ammunition. There were about Rs. 12,000 in cash and Rs. 20,000 more were raised from prize sales. A party of 40 native infantry under a European officer was left in the fort. Forts were dismantled in 1827.
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