Construction on the fort was started by Mirza Azam Shah, the son of Emperor Aurangzeb and it was completed by Ismaeel Khan, the Nawab of Elichpur in 1757.

The old Gazetteer states, "People are sufficiently educated to scrawl their names on all parts of the chhatri, and a stone in the middle has been coloured with the ubiquitous sacred red.

The frivolous say that visitors to the chhatri must do three things, firstly, they should note the char bot ki patthar, four-fingers stone, which has been set in near the top of a pillar on the soul."

Aurangzeb, after ascending the imperial throne at Delhi, appointed Raja Jaisingh as the Governor of the Dakkan.

Situated on an elevated ground between the two rivers, the fort has very high walls and bastions built of the best brickwork of its time.