Described by a 16th century Persian chronicler as ‘the pearl I the necklace of castles of Hind’, Gwalior Fort has had a turbulent history. Founded in the 8th century AD, it was successively ruled by a series of local Hindu dynasties, followed by the Delhi Sultans, the Mughals and finally the Maratha Scindias who became the maharajas of Gwalior in the 18th century.