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Dregs of the parapets have been found in sector 17 of Fort. This
area is of strategic importance as it is situated near the forefront of the
Fort. Here the thickness of the wall is about 2 to 2.5 meters. It is masonry
built of stones in regularly shape as quarried or squared and hammer
dressed and having comparatively thick joints of lime motor having brick
surkhi.
As far as Lohgarh Fort is concerned, only a rich person like Lakhi Rai
Vanjara could have built it. He had a force of hundreds of thousands of
young workers (who had military training as well). A huge quantity of
stones, lime and bricks were used to build this Fort. Such massive stock
of construction materials could not have been brought by a couple of
hundred persons. A ‘tanda’ (trade caravan) of hundreds of thousands
or person would have brought all this. Lakhi Rai Vanjara already had
experience of building about two dozen Forts and Palaces. He had been
a supplier of building materials (stone, lime and timber) for the Red
Fort Delhi and some Maratha Forts.

Endnotes

1. Research Report, prepared by Indian Trust, for Rural Heritage and
Development, New Delhi, (2016), page 8.
2. Page 169; The Crisis of empire in Mughal North India, by Muzaffar Alam,
ISBN13:978-0-19-807741-6 & ISBN10:0-19-80741-6.
3. Ibid page 160-74
4. Andrea Hintze, Mughal Empire and its Decline: An Interpretation of the
Sources of Social Power, p. 62.