Kot-Marot

Marot is one of the fortified places of Cholistan, set beside the old course of the Hakra River. Its brick fort forms part of a network that includes Derawar, Maujgarh and other strongholds across the desert. Rectangular walls and round bastions guarded the enclosure, while wells supplied water in a country where the old river had long ceased to flow. The line of forts followed routes across the sandy plain, linking isolated places in the country between the Punjab rivers and the Thar.