Perawa, Malwa
India. Original steel engraving drawn ny J. S. Cotman, after a sketch by R. Elliot, engraved by W. Le Petit. 1833
Perawa is a little known town in the state
of Madhya Pradesh about seventy miles from the holy city of Ujjain. The
principal building is an old stone fort, represented in the
accompanying engraving, which, though not boasting much architectural
splendour, is in the highest degree picturesque, and affords a very fair
specimen of the edifices of the same nature continually encountered in
the wildest and most remote places of India. The style of this fortress
is partly Mohameddan and partly Hindu; the Ghat, with its open pavilions
to the left of the plate, affording a pleasing contrast to the
bastioned walls of the citadel; it leads to a gateway, which, though
does not bear any comparison to the noble entrances of many of the
places of arms in India, is not destitute of architectural beauty.
As you can see in the plate the steps leading to the water body are
flanked by open canopied structures. The rear gateway is equally
impressive with a projecting canopied veranda over it. The main dome on
the landward side must have crowned the main hall and we assume the main
entrance would be even more imposing. There is no information on this
fort and whether it still stands is a matter of conjecture.
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