Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Gwalior

About Gwalior — A Brief History

Gwalior is one of the great fortress cities of north India, dominated by the Gwalior Fort that crowns a flat-topped sandstone hill rising more than a hundred metres above the city. The fort's earliest references date to the sixth century CE, when an inscription records the legend of the saint Gwalipa healing the king Suraj Sen, and over a thousand years it passed through Tomar, Mughal, Maratha and finally Scindia hands without ever falling to a regular siege. Inside the fort are also the Teli ka Mandir one of the tallest free-standing temples in north India and the small but striking Saas-Bahu pair.

Inside the citadel stand the fifteenth-century Man Mandir Palace of Raja Man Singh Tomar, the colossal Jain rock-cut images at Gopachal and the Gujari Mahal museum. Below, the city holds the white-marble tomb of the sixteenth-century musician Tansen, the Italianate Jai Vilas Palace of the Scindias with its world-famous chandelier-laden Durbar Hall, and the cenotaph of the Rani of Jhansi who fell in battle here in 1858. The Sun Temple at Morar adds a modern Birla landmark to the heritage circuit.

Gwalior remains a major centre for Hindustani classical music the Tansen Music Festival each December anchors a year-round circuit and is a busy junction on the Delhi-Mumbai railway. Industries around Sitholi and Banmore, an Indian Air Force station and a strong educational base round out the city. Shree Mahavir Courier's Gwalior branches handle the daily flow of office documents, music-festival paperwork and household parcels in and out of this fortress town.