The document describes a student group's project visiting and reporting on two important historical sites in Delhi, India: Qila Rai Pithora fort and Qutub Minar. It includes individual reports from group members on their experiences visiting the sites, what they learned about the historical significance and architecture from information stones and guides, and photos they took. The fort remains were in a scattered state with little information for visitors, while Qutub Minar was well-maintained and attracted foreign tourists to learn about the past.

1. FC- INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
PROJECT :
EXPLORING THE HISTORICAL PLACES OF INDIA IN
A GROUP BY VISITING THEM AND EXPLAINING
THEIR VIEWS AND EXPERIENCE
Made by : Group U
Section 5
Shymlal college
(evening)

2. OUR PROJECT ON
• QILA RAI PITHORA
• QUTUB MINAR

3. QILA RAI PITHORA
• Qila Rai Pithora also known as Rai Pithora's Fort
was a fort city built in 12th-century by Chauhan
king, Prithviraj Chauhan. Chauhan Rajputs had
taken over the city of Delhi, from Tomar Rajputs.
It also incorporated, much older Lal Kot built
earlier by 8th-century Tomar Rajput ruler, Anang
Pal I. Qila is a Persian word meaning a fort or
castle.[1] It was from the fort that the Tomar,
Chauhan and the Slave Dynasty ruled over Delhi
from 12th to 13th century.

7. Remains of the fort walls
• Remains of the fort walls scatters across South
Delhi, visible in present Saket, Mehrauli
around Qutub complex, Kishangarh and
Vasant Kunj areas

10. HISTORY
• In 1160s, the Chauhan rulers took over Delhi from Tomars, along with
it the fort city of Lal Kot, the first extant city of Delhi. Thereafter
Prithviraj Chauhan whose capital was Ajmer in Rajasthan, enlarged
the Lal Kot, which had large rubble walls and ramparts, and renamed
it Qila (Fort) of Rai Pithora or Qila Rai Pithora. The combined fort
extended to six and a half km, and city existed with the fort, while
older Lal Kot served as the citadel.However, the Chauhan's didn't rule
long over the city, in 1190s the Afghans started attacking. Though
Chauhans defeated Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in
1191, a year later in 1192, his general Qutubuddin Aibak defeated
Prithviraj Chauhan inSecond Battle of Tarain, ending their dynasty
and in turn establishing Muslim rule with his Mamluk dynasty also
known as Slave dynasty, the first Sultanate of Delhi. He also revived
the older name of the city, Dihli. However, Aibak didn't extend or
change the fort structure, it remained same through his early
successors as well.

12. QUTUB MINAR
• Qutb-Minar in red and buff
standstone is the highest tower in
India. It has a diameter of 14.32 m at
the base and about 2.75 m on the top
with a height of 72.5 m. Qutbu'd-Din
Aibak laid the foundation of Minar in
AD 1199 for the use of the mu'azzin
(crier) to give calls for prayer and
raised the first storey, to which were
added three more storeys by his
successor and son-in-law, Shamsu'dDin Iltutmish (AD 1211-36). All the
storeys are surrounded by a projected
balcony encircling the minar and
supported by stone brackets, which
are decorated with honey-comb
design, more conspicuously in the first
storey.

15. • The tomb of Iltutmish
(AD 1211-36) was
built in AD 1235. It is a
plain square chamber
of red sandstone,
profusely carved with
inscriptions,
geometrical and
arabesque patterns in
Saracenic tradition on
the entrances and the
whole of interior.
Some of the motifs
viz., the wheel, tassel
etc., are reminiscent
of Hindu designs.

17. • Ala'i-Darwaza, the
southern gateway of
the Quwwat-ul-Islam
mosque was
constructed by
Alau'd-Din Khalji in
AH 710 (AD 1311) as
recorded in the
inscriptions
engraved on it. This
is the first building
employing Islamic
principles of
construction and
ornamentation.

18. • Ala'i Minar which stands to the
north of Qutb-Minar, was
commenced by Alau'd-Din Khalji,
with the intention of making it
twice the size of earlier Minar.
He could complete only the first
storey which now has an extant
height of 25 m. The other
remains in the Qutub complex
comprise madrasa, graves,
tombs, mosque and architectural
members.

19. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
SIDHARTH
8019
Our project to Quila Rai Pithora was a difficult task many of the
people living here by did not knew about the fort . It take
almost 2 hours to reach the fort from saket metro station .
When I reach the fort I saw a huge statue of Prithvi raj chauhan
standing on the roof of museum . It was very beautiful. The
remains of walls were scattered through out the area . But due
to loss awareness of fort by people we could not know much
about the fort. So we talked to Mr. Manish teacher about it
then he said to visit Qutub Minar . Qutub Minar was in
awesome place, a lot of tourist from different places of world
can be found their, it was a great fun to visit Qutub Minar; we
were very tired at the end of the day but it was great visiting
the out historical places.

20. VINOD DHULL
8023
• AFTER a little shower of rain it was a bright day. Our task was to explore Quila Rai
Pithora. We went there by Delhi Metro. We actually have to walk a lot to Rai
Pithora as we get down to Saket metro station instead of Malvia Nagar. At the entry
gate i saw a huge tomb with a statue of Prithviraj chauhan on a horse. It was made
to look ancient but is not. It was actually made by DDA(Delhi Development
Authority) 10 years back. It was a library. There was a huge wall surrounding the
fort. The wall was built in a interesting manner. Initially big rocks were placed and
on it some smaller one and in the last the smallest ones. The smallest rocks were
around 12” length breadth and height .
• The fort was all green with grass and beautiful flower. We saw a well , it was
covered with a net . It was so deep that even our torch light was not reaching
there. Even the stone hit the ground after 5 seconds we drop it. We couldn’t get
any knowledge about the fort as the lady of archaeological department present
there dint know any thing about the fort. We could gather some knowledge about
the fort only by the information stones placed there. We have to come back only
with some pictures of the fort and our little knowledge gathered from the
“information stones”.

21. Vinay Jain
8063
• My experience was good. Rai Pithora is a nice place. This place talks about
the historical evens took place in India. From the engraved information
stones I came to know about the historical importance of the quila. The
quila has seen three battles been fought on him.
It was all surrounded by big walls and huge stones. It was all green
and beautifully decorated with flowers. There was a tomb kind of
structure, which is a library and on it a statue of Prithvi raj chauhan with
his horse. It was not ancient. The librarian told us that it has been made by
DDA around 10-12 years back.
I clicked some of our group pictures and we came back and gathered
knowledge from internet. It was a nice trip to Quila Rai Pithora.

22. Vipin Kumar
8086
• On 8th Oct I was very happy that I am going to Quila Rai Pithora and I am
going to learn something new about our history. I reached Rai Pithora
Quila situated in Malvia Nager along with my group members. The quila is
spread over a large area. I can see only broad walls made of big stones.
There is an old well. A library has been built by DDA.
I could find some stones scripted with the historical information of
the quila. From these scripted stones only I could know something about
the quila. In the library I find a lady of archaeological department and tried
to gather some knowledge about the quila but due to her poor knowledge
she could not share any information. After about two hour visit I came
back home.

23. Sivam Rai
8073
• The Qutub Minar is a very old monument. This monument was built by
Qutub-ud-din Aibak. The structure of this monument was based on
European monuments. Foreigners‘ come to see this monument as is very
famous across the world. It recalls us the memories of historical wars. It is
built at a higher level that time. The engineering is of a high level and the
design is built by great designers of the estate. In today's time people
study but they still cant made this kind of buildings, today people study
the techniques as how and what kind of technology they use to build such
kind of huge monuments.
I saw small students from different schools who come there to see
Qutub Minar. I interviewed them and I find them so excited to know about
the historical part of the country. My visit to QutubMinar was amazing. I
have learned a lot from there.

24. Surya Kant Malpani
•
8006
According to our history project assigned by our history teacher, we started the
journey for two historical places in Delhi. Rai Pithora’s Fort and Qutub Minar, both
of them are very interesting places. There was a statue of Prithavi raj chauhan and
stones and some other things which is not efficient to show the history. It was the
place where prithavi raj fought with Mohammed Gauri two times. There were so
many walls made up of stone. There was no person who knows the history of this
fort and we were feeling very bad by this fact. After some time we take path for
Qutub Minar it was a very interesting place because many persons come there
including foreigners. Qutub Minar acquired a very wide area. There was so many
stone made monuments, drawings, pillar, painting, sculptures, and work of art. At
that time, it is very difficult to think to do this but the Mughal Empire does this in a
very good manner. There are many things which are efficient to show the history of
that time. It is so amazing monument that the person who visited first time would
like to visit again and again. One thing I like most that on the monument some
Urdu words are embedded everywhere. The monument talks history of that time
itself. I am very happy to see these two monuments which are very important fort
and source of our history.