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Median areas of hill fort buildings by type. The six largest building types (light-shaded bars) are present only at Chittledroog
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Hundreds of early modern forts dot the South Indian landscape, but more is known about their art-historical aspects than how these fortifications were built, maintained, and used. The latter aspects are examined in a comparative analysis of six Mysore hill forts, using East India Company surveys that were prepared in 1802 shortly after British forc...
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... six building types with the largest median areas occur only at Chittledroog (Fig. 8). None of Chittledroog's palace structures appear to have been in use in 1802. The two largest palaces both measured 250 ft (76 m) on a side, and were two-storied, mud-walled buildings with mud and chunam terraced roofs; both were also judged to be in "unserviceable" condition. The remaining palace was considerably smaller, measuring 80 ...
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... remaining building types were roughly comparable in median size (see Fig. 8) and examples of each type were reported at most of the six sites. Structures described in the inventories as choultries were typically used as guard rooms or barracks at the time of survey. Hindu temples (listed as "pagodas") and mosques have a complementary distribution across the sites (see Table 2), but at least in one instance, ...
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