Indian State Railways Magazine. November 1937

We turned to tlie right along the road to ggar on the left bank of the river and presently ctiminution of the sound of the river and a.tening of the expanse of sky above us indicated Wti? [...] Between his task of passing on the torch of knowledge and the steadfast training of those who were to later qualify as Saints themselves the Sheikh would often play with the little Prince or wander in the courtyard of the Zenana where the ladies would seek the wise counsel of his years. [...] Can you visualise the arrival one fine rning " out of the blue " as it were of a cameke with passengers and mail P The creaking of mework the squeaking of wheels not well oiled the gruff and unholy abuse of the driver mg the animals forward —these are sounds t no longer come over the air : we have our Tern substitute inside our wireless sets but is o be compared with the bedlam of the came [...] The cliffs are in some parts sheer for several hundred feet and as there is only a single overlooking ridge to the west about a mile away across the gorge of the Minoni the fort amply justified the saying He who holds the fort holds the hills ". Its impregnability made its holder as a matter of course supreme among the hill country of the upper Beas valley. [...] The origins of the Fort are lost in the obscurity of the pre-Christian era but it is generally believed to have been founded by Susarman Chandra the 234th descendant of Bhum Chand founder of the Chanderbansi Dynasty ( to whom local legend ascribes origin not from human agencies but from the perspiration of the brow of the goddess at Kangra ) in the 15th or 16th century B. C. The fort was former