The Kolhapur District of Maharashtra is half a mile towards the east of Panhala fort from which it is separated by a ravine.
[1] The chief defense of the fort is a scarped rock fifteen to twenty-five feet high.
In most places the steepness of the rock has been increased by artificial scarping and it has been strengthened by a parapet wall of Kolhapur black stone fourteen feet high.
A British force under General Delamotte was sent against the rebels and on 1 December 1844 breached Panhala fort walls, took it by storm.
Shortly thereafter in 1844, the two main entrances of Pavangad were pulled down and the fort was dismantled.