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Burail Fort

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ21933307 ↗
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Burail Fort is a fort situated in Burail, Sector 45 of Chandigarh, India. It was built during the Mughal period. It remained under the control of the Mughal Faujdar up till 1712 CE. Banda Singh sent the Khalsa Army which captured the fort and killed the Faujdar.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1712—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Burail, Fort and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Burail Fort” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.