[1] It is over 360 years old and has become more popular with the shooting of the Oscar-winning movie Zero Dark Thirty.

Dhillons of Manimajra later also occupied Sailba, 28 km northwest of Manimajra and now in SAS Nagar district, and Gurbakhsh Singh Dhillon was appointed kiladar (governor) of the Sailba fort.

[3] As per Mahan Kosh, popularly known as Encyclopedia of Sikhism, Mani Majra was a town of (then) Ambala district of Punjab Province, which was conquered in 1821 by a local zamindar Ghareeb Dass along with 84 other villages and turned into the capital of his newly created State.

As Bhagwan Singh Dhillon was childless, the Government took control of the property of this fort.

The premises is being used as a playground or for parking vehicles by people living in the adjoining area.