Gwalior

Gwalior was a hill fortress between Rajputana and the Gangetic plain. In the fourteenth century the Tomaras were vassals of the Tughluqs, holding land at Aisah before taking the fortress.

In 1394 their leader Virasimha seized Gwalior by a ruse. From 1486 Man Singh Tomar built the Man Mandir palace and fostered music; his son Vikramaditya surrendered to Ibrahim Lodi and died at Panipat in 1526. The Mughals took the fort in 1528. The Scindia state, founded at Ujjain in 1731, came under British suzerainty after defeat in 1803.