Indian Fortifications and their various architecture styles/plannings How strong where they compared to european and East Asian fortifications ?

Grey445

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starstrike said:
That's a good point actually. Castles tend to have a small footprint but quite tall. Indian forts have a larger footprint and contain mini towns basically.
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Golconda and warangal fort
They were literally cities with lakhs of population man

Golconda had over 4 lakh people at it's peak

It can have 100 average castle inside it's fortified wall

How could you compare the two things ?

Completely different
 
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Grey445 said:
Golconda and warangal fort
They were literally cities with lakhs of population man

Golconda had over 4 lakh people at it's peak

It can have 100 average castle inside it's fortified wall

How could you compare the two things ?

Completely different
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sure, but then you have to compare it to a European fortified town.
 
Grey445

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Changdao said:
There are castles with palaces inside (e.g, the Alhambra) and late castles that double as a palace. Castles could be very small, medium in size, or rather large.
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Sure but in lot of cases palaces are even bigger than castle
 
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One of my favourite forts is the twin fort of Ankai-Tankai in Maharashtra

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Grey445 said:
You cannot use word castle for a fort
Completely different thing .

Castle , fort and palaces are three different thing

So yes I was indeed right with my statement

100 castle would fit inside a fort
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Going to have to disagree on that one. Some caqtles are huge, some forts are small.
Edinburgh castle:
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Fort Western
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