India’s centuries-old ‘unconquerable’ sea fort - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2023
- India’s Murud-Janjira fort has been hailed as a marvel of engineering.
Located on a small rocky island off the country’s west coast, the fort has stood unconquered for centuries - withstanding attacks from British, French and Portuguese armies.
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Had been to this fort twice.. reaching there is itself an adventure. It was a whole city during its glory. It takes whole day to explore the fort.
It's been nice if the BBC could have showed us the inside😮
Epstein would have loved it
@@belmont8792 it's actually a ruined fort... You can find lots of it's videos on RUclips.
@@AKB114 Thanks 😊
@@AKB114 Thanks 😊
One important reason due to which this fort was unconquered is , Siddis often aligned themselves with a power rival to the one attacking or besieging the fort, so their allied power kept the attacking kingdom busy in fighting somewhere else and kept the siddi's and janjira fort supplied.
The fort was later captured by Marathas from Siddis.
@@mangopudding5979 it wasn't captured by the marathas. The campaign you are probably referring to is the offensive conducted by peshwa bajirao against the Siddis. While the Marathas captured all coastal territories like danda, rajapuri, north konkan etc Siddis quickly capitulated and made a deal with the peshwa to be the Chhatrapati's tributary vassal in turn they could keep the Janjira fort. So they still controlled the fort.
@@surajbiradar9827 Siddis were de feated by Marathas and yes it was captured by Marathas for some time After deafeting then siddis.
@@mangopudding5979 cite a reliable source or evidence supporting your claim.
@@surajbiradar9827can't he read on internet
I never knew of this fort ! What a discovery
They should organise a television show like Fort Boyard in France
What's fort boyard about?
@@pipipupu5104
A cult adventure show. It has now various international versions with each international television team shooting at Fort Boyard. Look it up
It has been taught in Maharashtrian schools main times about the adventures of marathas on janjira
@@shasha0076
Thanks for the information. That said, I only now realised that Marathas built numerous forts and contrary to the Rajasthani ones, the Maharashtrian ones are in dire state. Your state government has done a miserable job in restoring them
Man I’d love to go back to India, amazing place.
Respect from U.K. 🇬🇧🇮🇳
Edit: Didnt expect this to blow up, but yes definitely to visit, haha. Kerala, where I stayed was beautiful and the food delicious. The history between our nations has been one of exploitation and dominance which was a crime though we can work together to make the next 400 years better than the last.
Do not come 🔙 🔙
@@ANAYSHARMA-io9uoagreed. I would never want to go to India 🤢
Hope you have a good time here. Ignore the haters :)
@@ANAYSHARMA-io9uoI don’t think he’s coming to exploit😂😂😂 I think he’s coming to visit
Dont come, we do not want your kind hear.
Looks an awful lot like the Attack On Titan walls, simply amazing.
😂😂
Let's uncover the secrets in the basement
Uncanny similarity
Lmao, I've seen it many times as i visited murud janjira in my relatives wedding. The fort is near rajapuri village.
Really ingenious structure indeed. Preserve it in good health.
I am from Murud Janjira and I would like to say that Janjira was under the Siddi rule. Siddis worked as allies of Adilshah of Bijapur and later for the Mughals. That's true that Maratha king Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was never able to conquer the fort Janjira but his son, king Chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj once besieged this fort in 1682, nearly choked the Siddis to death but had to retreat from the fight to drive back a large Mughal army from his capital, Raigad.
After many years, Siddi leader was killed in battle with the army of Peshwa Bajirao in 1736. Siddis signed a peace treaty and annual tributaries to Marathas until British took over the region. Then Janjira became a princely state of Siddis in British India and paid taxes to British.
Padmadurg is one of the sea forts built by Maratha kings in 1676 in Murud to challenge Janjira which was controlled by Siddis and control the other activities in Arabian sea and it is located in the northwest direction of Janjira fort at a distance of about 10 km.
Yes, that's correct!
This is my native place I born and brought up over there.. I love my Murud Janjira so much❤❤
mine too.. ❤
I had visited the fort, the place is so mesmerizing and beautiful. The sunset is so amazing.
It was constructed in the 14th century AD by Raja Rao Patil, the commander of the Kolis/ Marathi fisherman community and was later captured from them by the Siddis( Slaves bought by Bijapur/Ahmednagar/Hyderabad Sultanates, who were of East African origins).
@MOHAMMEDJUNED SHAIKH you aren't even Indian.
Exactly! Indians we need to protect our history, especially the non-islamic invader ones.
@@PikaPluff
Which history?
Rama born to horse and Brahma married his daughter. Like that isn't it?
Don't plagiarize buddist history as yours!
@Al Mazid no the history of marrying 9 year old and flying horses of popat mutttttammat
@Al Mazid don't plagiarise Judaism concept as your pis.lam. BTW Hinduism is older than Buddhism. Madrassachap mullac.hod
why history books doesn't mention this fort ? I live in Delhi and dont think anyone knows about this beautiful place
Thanks BBC for covering this fort. As an Indian I never knew about this fort. 🙏
Talibani sperm andhnamazi punchawala don't used maratha name
Tu marathi nashil vatte
Sale pakistani bot
Tax thief lagta hai sudhar gya 😅😅😅
No way ur maratha, if you don't know this fort.
Amazing fort and a piece of history well preserved. I have been to this fort and its mesmerizing experience to see engineers in 15th century build such a marvel.
The fort look extremely beautiful ❤️🤩
Built by Raja Ram Rao the patil of Janjira Island and a chief of the kolis in the 15th century for Kolis to live on peacefully away from pirates. He built the island after gaining permission from the sultan of the Ahmadnagar sultanate but later refused to obey the orders of the Sultan.
When the Patil and the Kolis were intoxicated, Piram Khan attacked them with his men, who had been hidden in barrels, and captured this island fort.
So it was conquered.
Agreed 🤝🏾
Stop lying! That fort was built by Malik Ambar!!!
Stop day dreaming 😂
It was not conquered in war. What happened to patil was deception. The Siddis fortified the fort with heavy canons after gaining control and that made it unconquerable.
So to begin taking you at face-value: You saying the island itself is an artificial, man-made structure?
Thanks BBC for capturing this fort for us… on video! 🎥⭐
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Peshwa Bajirao I win the battle against Siddhis of Janjira but he didn't enter the fort he did make them pay money. Again correct me if I am wrong.
@@omkarshitole4832 ohhh so it's not an unconquerable fort?😂
yes
No, he had to leave the campaign halfway. But that didn't mean he lost.
@@chaitanyanage4933no peshwa bajirao defeated siddis and siddis became vessal state of maratha empire by giving annual taxes to marathas.. So marathas didn't need to conquer this fort
@@kuldeeprana1908 nah, after 100+ yrs of experience with them, Marathas would never leave them be, if they won. Did you forget the story of Prataprao Gujar?
Excellent construction 🇮🇳
The closest someone came to conquering the Fort was Shivaji Maharaj, in his one of three attacks on the Fort, with the help of Mughals! The leader decided to surrender, but his generals imprisoned him, and continued to fight, gradually separating mughals from Marathas.
Raja Ram Rao Patil was the Patil of Janjira Island and a chief of the Kolis who built this island in the 15th century for Kolis to live on peacefully away from pirates. He built the island after gaining permission from the Sultan of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate but later refused to obey the orders of the Sultan. In retaliation, the Sultan sent his Admiral Piram Khan in 1489 to capture the island. Due to the castle's fortifications, Piram Khan was unable to attack the island conventionally, so he disguised himself as a merchant and requested to stay a night at Janjira. He was granted permission, and he hosted a party under the guise of thanking the Patil. When the Patil and the Kolis were intoxicated, Piram Khan attacked them with his men, who had been hidden in barrels, and captured the island.
Complete Copy of Wikipedia Page 🤭
Totally fake story 🤡
@@blogsterstudio4316 wikipedia proof = en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murud-Janjira
Excellent..... i stay in Mumbai, and was not aware of this marvellous fort !!
You don't seem like a marathi person. Just staying in Mumbai isn't enough, you need to have Maharashtrian blood inside you.
Fascinating
Look impressive 👌 very well engineered
I think the Siddis were from the Horn of Africa.
I went there 15 years ago.... a truly remarkable fort......but there again, there are so many remarkable forts etc... in India.
Fort made by Raja Ram Rao Patil[
Not made by Siddis.
Largely from Ethiopia
@@honestcat224 yes this fort not made by siddhis it was made by hindu maratha king of koli community
siddis are not from the horn of africa they are not geneticly close to modern day inhabitants of the horn they carry ancestry from the swahili coast
Glory to the king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj 🧡🚩
Bro he never conquered it....he came and got defeated 2 3 times
@safishahbunder1787 they paid taxes to Maratha (Hindavi Swaraj /Hind's Confederacy), just like Bengal Subah & Nizam Hyderabad.
This fort is really beautiful. This town is my home land😊 and we have one more fort name Kasa Fort. Approx 130 kms distance from Mumbai. Murud janjira is really a best place to visit.
The opening shot with music is lit❤
Best and best capture … Many thanks to the crew members ..
Ruled by Siddi kings but who built it and ruled it before?? Why not mention it? Sounds like an important information just omitted on purpose.
@Varaha Shakthi Yeah Raja Ram Rao Patil and some cheif of Kolis built this is in 15th century
@kannan159 No they didn't. It was wooden before, the actual stone fortress you see and are looking at that remained this way for 500 years was built by African rulers in place of the wooden structure. Don't lie.
Jai bhavani 🚩🚩
Jai maratha 🚩🚩
Whatever they used as cement joints on this fort is so strong that stone is worn out in some places but joint is still intact.
Wow, interesting. I never heard of this port before. 👍😃
Dora it is a fort not a port
@@rockhard1844 thank you for the correction. I don't realize that day. 😁
Janjira looks like a beautiful island fortress.
This is the most stupid comment ever
Coz it is a sea Island fort
Thought this was a new map update for Call of Duty MW2
I went there and i know why no one conquered it. The single gate is taller than 5 floor building.
And there's leake in middle is so beautiful and filled with sweet water so they don't need water from outside
Indian engineering ❤❤❤
Didn't know , thanks 👍🏼
whats the soundtrack their using? Sounds epic!!
I agree, specially in the end. Scenic vibes ngl
I wanna know too
What a gem
❤ India
Omg what happnedd bbc why cover good things of india 🇮🇳
Another magnificent Hollywood shooting location?
Just needs another magnificent director who can give it an equal opportunity to shine further
I am from janjira and I am proud of my village
thought you were eating poo sandwiches 🥪 😮bungditin
This is amazing. I must visit this fort.
Praveen Mohan should go there (if he didn't already) and share his thoughts on this fort. He is a very interesting and insightful man. 👍🏽
May be in 2030 there are thousands of architectural marvels all over India, this one is mid.
Exactly and the fact that many hindu forts and anceint temples have negligible pr and publicity
He tell more lies than real facts,
What made him famous is the fact that he could speak English in accent of English lady.
@@vaibhavsingh4200 Come to mention it, you do kind of make a point on the English lady's voice question... But I do think he shares his opinions on things he has seen and as always he asks us what we think about it at the end. 🧿
@@vaibhavsingh4200 Books can lie, people can lie, eyes can lie but things standing at same place for thousands of years cannot lie.
This fort is near by my district
जय महाराष्ट्र🚩
Very beautiful place ..
I love my india🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳...
Would make a nice addition to a medieval fantasy story
Talk about kumbalgarh and kangra fort too
Ask godi media
@@Maratha382 no body asked your opinion 😂😂😂
@@Maratha382 Whats your opinion about Sindhudurg aur Raigarh ? We should also proud of other forts
What amazing things yet to learn
This is awesome.
India's glorious history
🇮🇳🔥🏹🏹
history of poop eating?
@@YuraK25 u r from Ukraine, one of the biggest shltholle in the world in 2023, so please don't talk about other countries
@@YuraK25 go eat ur pork first
@@YuraK25 Russia banged you so hard
@@mindcontrol737 lmaoo but also don't say that, he's just jealous leave him be.
Even shivaji couldn't conquer this fort. Wow👍. What an engineering bavo. 😍
Aara ya vadya chhatrapti sambhaji maharaj ne banvya ta eis fort ko
because these land no need to conquer for Chhatrapati Sivaji Maharaj, you should use full name
Wow wonderful
Where is it?
The design and architect of this fort itself suggests who would have made it.
Who ??
@@sumitbhattacharya4402it was made by marathi guy named patil rao
Thanks BBC for covering this ❤
construction in the sea is a difficult thing to do even now. great to see this.
This place that I never seen it before!
Feels like somewhere a Bond Villain would have their lair.
Fort resemblance with Winterfell very much.
Mandatory captioning is not needed. It can be accessed through the youtube "CC" function. It simply adds to the debris on the screen.
*🕉️ 🚩 🇮🇳 INDIA 🇮🇳 🚩 🕉️*
The British didn't need to conquer it, they had the strongest and largest navy in the world, they could've either blockaded it or just bypassed it altogether.
Did you watch the video? This fort has fresh water source and people farmed and fished their own supplies, so blockading and having the biggest navy would mean nothing. Infact this island was not part of British India and ceded to India after the British left.
It can and did survive on it's own for quite a while, it has freshwater, fish and even some greens grown in the gardens.
छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज की जय🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very nice. Good information. Unconquered.
Marvelous
The only thing that conquers the fort now is the rising sealevel
Probably there's a technical method to drain the rainwater through a tunnel or pipes using natural phenomena instead of pumps.
@@DarkSkay but how they drain rising sea level huh?
@@pipipupu5104 Haha, that would be an idea for a SciFi movie. Meanwhile the walls look more than strong enough to keep the seawater outside the fort.
😂 yes its nemesis is a cheap industrialy mass produced plastic flip flop.
How is this news?
Thank you BBC
Much appreciated video ❤
Out standing 🤟
Its only possible in India.
My uncle owns a beach house right across this fort, been going there for summer vacations for years.
The fort is so fascinating I always visit it when I'm there.
There are people who were born on the fort and they share really interesting stories of how life was back then.
from where you are?
@@utkarshagrawal2002 I am from Thane City (Mumbai)
Pakistani are not allowed
even a siege didn’t work ? how was the fort supplied ?
It has fresh water, access to fish caught from the sea, and grew vegetables.
it outlast the besieger
There is underground secret tunnel ...which connects fort and villages on shores
Astounding
It looks like a Star Fort.
WTF Siddhi, really? It was built under shiaaji maharajs period. Seriously read the books .
Just another attempt to wash out the great history of Hinduism 😅
Better research about it
I'm marathi I know the history of it
It was build way before shivaji maharaj
Shivaji maharaj build Padmadurg fort which is near janjeeraa
And Sindhudurg fort
Don't lie. The stone fortress you see here was built by the African rulers. Before they conquered and built what you are looking at, the island had a wooden fort which they knew could not possibly withstand attack.
Old Vincey would just dig a little old tunnel and ravage the place with dingos
The fort already has the tunnel which is connected to shores
Nearby forts Padmadurg & Sindhu Durg.
Lohgad Fort & Raigad Fort
amazing fort
An engineering marvel indeed, but unconquered because nobody needed to, would have been easy for the worlds most powerful navy to blockade and starve them out, but easier to bypass it, conquer everything else until they had no choice but to sign a peace treaty…., wait thats about what happened 🤣
I wonder why people like you can't watch a video about India without dissing the country
"wait thats about what happened". No, it was not part of British India. The rulers ceded it to Indian territorry after independence from Britain.
@@airplanedude3103 Not really dissing. Calling it unconquerable is misleading
@@TugaThings Yeah ik it's misleading. However, I was talking about the laughing emoji at the end.
@@airplanedude3103 Got it
It also attack by Britishers but they failed😂😂😂.
Bbc is paid media.
Surprised it’s not in the British Museum by now.
My hometown 😊
Proud to be maratha.🚩🕉
Dude constructions done by musilms
Koli and Siddi,,,,
maratha didn't exist at that time
@@organicfarm5524ol noob ... research well
Marathi language is 1200-2000 years old
Then how come maratha people didn't exist at that time?
there are call scammers inside that fort
Are u male or female or confused one
@@HiHi-ol3hs Wtf 😂
What happened? Did some indian guy stole your job?
How wonderful. Went to Daly College Indore with Mohamood Siddi Shah Janjira in 1959 ! Being junior to me I used to send him to the tuck shop to get candies for me !
😂👍
it would be more awesome if the video taken during afternoon sunset
doubt it is unconquerable, just make no economic sense trying to dump that much resource taken it. it can't send help to the mainland or the mainland can send ship to resupply it without getting hit.
They grew ther food there... They have pure drinking water also
@@sujitpawarsoldier It doesn't matter tho. This fort didn't stop the Portuguese from taking the western Indian coast neither the British
@@TugaThingsthe fort is connected to shores through underground tunnel...13kms long...
Research properly
@@durgeshsss I don't know why you Indians are so imature when it comes to stuff like this are you 10 years old? Even if there is a underwater tunnel, it would not matter since you can ignore the fort anyway. Is it a cool Fort? Yes. Is this fort capable of stopping and zoning out invaders from taking the coast? Absolutely not. It doesn't have any geostrategic importance, the only guy who wanted to conquer this at all costs was the Marathas King Shivaji. If the British wanted it they could've sinked the island with their navy but is was not worth the ammo.
@@TugaThings protect of western coast was not purpose of this fort dude..
Jazeera is an Arabic word in origin. It means island. Since then the name Janjira has become popular.
The characteristic of Janjira is that it is not easy to understand where the entrance of the fort is. One has to enter the fort by wading through water.
Besides the strong construction and the sea around, there are 572 guns on the banks of the Murud-Janjira. That is why this chain was impenetrable. Among these cannons, the Kalal Bangdi cannon was particularly large and long-ranged.
.....Awesome.....
That cool thst something like that has survived all this time especially since people of today are so destructive at times
Give it 100 years and it will be “conquered” by the sea.
That's a very extreme and outrageously absurd assertion.
Do you really believe that sea levels can rise that quickly?
You fool yourself by projecting human comprehension of time onto geological timeframes.
@@tastypymp1287 🥱
@@titteryenot4524 Come on, try abit harder.
@@tastypymp1287 🥱
@@titteryenot4524 That's abit childish isn't it.
Why don't you back up your assertion?
It is beautiful in appearance. I'm not so sure that it is "unconquerable" with today's technology 🤔 seeing as how one naval attack vessel could level the entire island .....but then there would be nothing left to conquer, just rubble.
Of all the dumbest comments in YT, yours takes the cake.
This is certainly a fort built before cannons were invented because they don't have sloped walls
@@gazpachopolice7211 they have cannons in the video
It’s a beautiful building, extremely resistant to most conventional siege attacks but as it lacks a harbour I don’t see how attacking it is even worth the effort.
You could sink any ships you see leave and there would be very little that they could do from the fort to continue the fight
@@chrissmith3587 I meant that the walls need to be slanting to deflect canon fire. The cannons in the fort might have come later.
This strech of coast has many such island forts or forts at the mouth of rivers, probably to protect trade via the Arabian peninsula from pirates and from invaders.
@@gazpachopolice7211 that is a fair point and you can see the cannons shown look to be primitive,
I recognise the advantage of such a fort, but I question the lack of secure harbour.
It’d require a significant effort from the mainland to supply and harbour a significant fleet. And without a significant fleet you wouldn’t even have to siege the fort, you just turn away the resupply boats
Additionally the fort is reduced to a gun platform to attack incoming fleets, there is no offensive capabilities, an important job but the size of the fort is unnecessarily big for that task.
I visited to this place 4 times
I suggest to upkeep that fort in the manner it deserves ...
Awesome construction by Muslims 😎
It's a Maratha fort.
show me single fort made by siddhis in africa😂
but my pisslami friend lotus is prohibited in islam then why siddhi carve lotus everywhere on fort😂 this fort was constructed by maratha read history search on google
Abe maratha fort hai chutiye madershchaap university student 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Siddhi People were always the Pride of Ancient India. They made up High Ranks in the Marata Army. From Military Commanders to Naval Commanders to Personal Body Guards of Maratha Emperor - Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Who had a Muslim Siddhi Bodyguard. This was how much Marathas trusted the Siddhi Tribal Commnity.
😂lol from where you read this history😂siddhis were biggest enemies of marathas and shivaji maharaj never had muslim commanders this is all fake propoganda spreaded by british servant raja ram mohan roy
this is hella cool
Now I know where to go during zombie apocalypse 😂