Jaigarh Fort
Sandstone fortress perched above Amber Fort, home to the world's largest wheeled cannon.
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This guide to the fortress above Amber introduces the Jaivana, the world's largest wheeled cannon, cast in the hilltop foundry Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II built here in 1720, and the single test-firing that sent its shot toward a village called Chaksu. It then turns to 1976, when Indira Gandhi's Emergency-era government sent an army unit to search the fort for treasure rumored to lie beneath its great water tank, closing the Delhi highway for three months. Stand by the water tank the soldiers dug around, and look for the old furnace that once cast cannons in a single day.
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