First Islamic attack on the fort was made in 724, during reign of Chauhan King Durlabhraj I, who bravely fought Muslim armies under caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

[6] It remained under control of Mewar and later Rana Sanga granted it to Karamchand Panwar[7] The fort later was conquered by the victorious Mughal armies in the aftermath of Battle of Khanwa in Rana Sanga of Mewar faced a crushing defeat at the hands of Emperor Babur, the Founder of the Mughal Dynasty .

The largest of its battlements is the 16th-century bastion known as the Bhim Burj, on which was once mounted a large cannon called Garbh Gunjam, or 'Thunder from the Womb'.

The fort also holds a shrine dedicated to Miran Saheb ki Dargah, who lost his life in 1202 CE during a Rajput attack.

[8][9] After conquering the fort of Kandahar, Emperor Jahangir built this Marble Cage (Kathera) in the dargah of Meera Syed Hussain in 1615.