The essential traditional royal garb of the Scindias has been the trademark head dress that has always been donned on special occasions by the royal members of the Scindia family, particularly during festivals, religious occasions and marriages.

In order to honour the sage, the king constructed the fort.
After India's independence in 1947, several … History The area in which Gwalior is situated was the core of Gwalior princely state. Scindia dynasty (anglicized from Shinde and also spelled popularly as Shinde in Maharashtra), is a Hindu Maratha dynasty that ruled the erstwhile State of Gwalior. The Gwalior state was a part of the Maratha Confederacy in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a princely state of the colonial British government during the 19th and the 20th centuries. According to a legend, Gwalior was once ruled by a king named Suraj Sen. A time came when he was suffering from leprosy which was incurable. A sage named Gwalipa gave him water from a sacred pond which cured his disease. Shrimant Jayajirao Scindia (19 January 1834– 20 June 1886) of the Scindia dynasty of the Marathas was the ruling Maharajah of Gwalior from 1843 to 1886 under the British rule. From here the combined force of Tantia Tope and Lakshmi Bai entered the city of Gwalior where they defeated the army of the Maharaja of Gwalior Jayajirao Scindia who had gone against his own country and accepted defeat in the hands of British without fighting. This was the time the Raja of Gwalior back stabbed Lakshmi Bai. That state was once the domain of the Sindhia family, a Maratha dynasty that controlled much of northwestern India during the second half of the 18th century. The menfolk usually dressed up in traditional finery ranging from the ‘Anga’ which is a long coat that appears like a kurta made up of Silk and Brocade with the ‘Pagadi’ and a sheathed swo…

However, a local legend tells us that it was built in 3 CE by a local king called Suraj Sen. A saint named Gwalipa came wandering to the fort and met the king…


The history of the Gwalior Fort According to historians, there isn’t any concrete proof to indicate exactly when the fort was constructed.