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[[File:Ahmedabad 1855.jpg|thumb|400px|Gates of [[old Ahmedabad]] in 1855]]
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The '''''Darwaja''''' or '''Gates of Ahmedabad''' were built during different times starting from 1411 as the entrances to the [[Old Ahmedabad|walled city]] of [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<ref name="Desai2006">{{cite book|author=Anjali H. Desai|title=India Guide Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZRLGZNZEoEC&pg=PA95|date=November 2006|publisher=India Guide Publications|isbn=978-0-9789517-0-2|page=95}}</ref><ref name="The Toi2013">{{cite web | title=Ahmedabad civic body okays renovation plans for Walled City darwazas | website=The Times of India | date=12 October 2013 | url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Ahmedabad-civic-body-okays-renovation-plans-for-Walled-City-darwazas/articleshow/24049992.cms | accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref>

These entrances to the city has a unique name and history. Pretty much the area surrounding these gates have adopted the name of the gate as the name of the locality. Each of the gate has beautiful carvings, calligraphy and some of them even balconies.<ref name="amg">{{cite news | url=http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2010020820100208031017336daeff19/CITY%E2%80%99S-LOST-GATES.html?pageno=1 | title=CITY’S LOST GATES | work=[[Ahmedabad Mirror]] | date=8 February 2010 | agency=AM | accessdate=12 February 2013 | author=Rajput, Vipul | author2=Patel, Dilip | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410041915/http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2010020820100208031017336daeff19/CITY%E2%80%99S-LOST-GATES.html?pageno=1 | archive-date=10 April 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
[[Ahmedabad]] was founded over the ancient settlement of Ashaval in 1411 by [[Ahmed Shah I]] of [[Gujarat Sultanate]]. He built the first citadel [[Bhadra Fort]] starting from [[Manek Burj]], the first bastion of the city. The Bhadra Fort had eight gates excluding palace gates. When the city expanded, Ahmed Shah built the second fort which was later fortified by [[Mahmud Begada]] in 1486. The second fort had twelve major gates and other smaller gates. After arrival of railways, British built two more gates to facilitate the movement. Later the citywalls were demolished leaving the gates as monuments.<ref name="amg"/><ref name="dna 2011">{{cite news| title=Ahmedabad gates: Residue of past or the pride of the present? | publisher=DNA | date=23 January 2011| first=Yatin|last=Pandya|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-ahmedabad-gates-residue-of-past-or-the-pride-of-the-present-1498198 | accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=GBA>{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275|year=1879|publisher=Government Central Press|pages=273–277}}</ref>

==Gates==
Most people believe that [[Ahmedabad]] had 12 gates but some historian suggested to have 16. Later some Indologists found that Ahmedabad had 21 gates.<ref name="amg"/>

===Gates of Bhadra Fort===
Bhadra fort had eight gates, three large, two in the east and one in the south-west corner; three middle-sized, two in the north and one in the south; and two small, in the west.
[[File:Bhadra Fort.JPG|thumb|Bhadra gate]]
[[File:Teen Darwaza 1880s.jpg|thumb|Teen Darwaza in 1880s]]
The details are: on the north face two middle-sized gates, one leading to the Khanpur, and the other to the Mirzapur ward; the former was originally a small opening lately, at a cost of £11 (Rs. 110), turned into a gateway in 1860s, 13 feet wide and 15 feet high, with neither doors nor arches ; on the east two, both large, the '''Lal Darwaza''' ({{coord|23|1|0.53|N|72|35|27.34|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Lal Darwaza}}) in the north-east and the '''Bhadra gate''' , formerly Piran Pir’s Darwaja, ({{coord|23|1|27|N|72|34|50|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Bhadra gate}}, [[Archaeological Survey of India]] [[Monument of National Importance]] No. N-GJ-2); on the south two, one middle-sized gate without doors built in 1874, in the centre near Azam Khan Sarai, and the other the large Ganesh gate in the south-west corner ; the former, an arched gateway, 18 feet wide and 17 feet high, cost £92 (Rs. 920); the '''Ganesh Bari''' or gate was in 1779 opened by Aapaji Ganesh, it is said, in one day; on the west two, both small, the '''Ram gate''', with stone steps in the south-west, and the '''Baradari gate''' ({{coord|23|1|35.83|N|72|34|37.64|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Khanjahan gate}}) in the north-west. Additionally '''[[Teen Darwaza]]''' ({{coord|23|1|27|N|72|35|4|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Teen Darwaza}}, [[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-5) was built later as an entrance to the royal square. Another '''Salapas gate''' ({{coord|23|1|0.53|N|72|35|27.34|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Salapas gate}}), used for envoy of queens, is now lost. Ganesh gate is now lost under [[Ellis Bridge]]. Lal Darwaza, opposite [[Sidi Saiyyed Mosque]], is lost now but parts of wall is visible.

===Gates of second fort===
As the city expanded, the second fort was built by Ahmed Shah I as described in ''Mirat-i- Ahmadi''. It was further fortified by [[Mahmud Begada]] in 1489.<ref name="amg"/><ref name="dna 2011"/><ref name=GBA/>

In the city walls of second fort, there were eighteen gates, fifteen large and three small. Of the fifteen, one was closed, and two were added later. These gates were, beginning from the north-west corner, three in the north-wall, the Shahpur in the north-west, the Delhi in the north, and the Dariyapur in the north-east; four in the east wall, the Premabhai, a gate built by British, in the north-east, the Kalupur in the east, the Panchkuva, a gate built by British, in the east, and the Sarangpur in the south-east; four in the south wall, the Raipur and Astodiya in the south-east, and the Mahuda, the closed gate, and the Jamalpur in the south; seven in the west wall, the Khan Jahan, Raikhad and Manek in the south-west; the three citadel gates, Ganesh, Ram, and Baradari in the centre; and the Khanpur gate in the north-west.<ref name="dna 2011"/><ref name=GBA/>

* '''Shahpur gate''' ({{coord|23|2|21|N|72|34|46|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Shahpur gate}}) : the doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches twenty feet high and fifteen broad with a roofed platform 32 X18. Now demolished.
[[File:Delhi Darwaja, Ahmedabad.JPG|thumb|Delhi gate]]
* '''Delhi gate''' ({{coord|23|2|16|N|72|35|16|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Delhi gate}}): Formerly known as Idariyo Gate, the doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches fifteen feet broad and twenty-two high with a roofed platform 32x20 pierced for one gun. In 1878, on either side of the main gateway, two openings, each 8 feet wide and 16 high were added for foot passengers at a cost of £489 (Rs. 4890). ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-15)
[[File:Dariapur Darvaja.jpg|thumb|Dariyapur gate]]
* '''Dariyapur gate''' ({{coord|23|2|14|N|72|35|34|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Dariyapur gate}}) : the doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches the largest twenty-two feet high with a roofed platform 30x11. ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-21)
* '''Kalupur gate''' ({{coord|23|1|51|N|72|35|52|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Kalupur gate}}) : the doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches twenty-seven feet high with a roofed platform 32x16 and pierced for two guns. ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-19)
* '''Sarangpur gate''' ({{coord|23|1|21|N|72|35|53|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Sarangpur gate}}) : doors of iron-plated timber, a gateway of three stone arches twenty-six feet high and fifteen broad and a roofed platform 33 X16, pierced for three guns. ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-20)
[[File:Raipur darwaja.jpg|thumb|Raipur gate]]
* '''Raipur gate''' ({{coord|23|1|2|N|72|35|41|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Raipur gate}}) : doors of iron-plated timber, a gateway of three stone arches twenty-six feet high and nineteen broad and a roofed platform 32 x 20, pierced for three guns. ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-37)
[[File:Astodiya Gate Night.jpg|thumb|Astodiya gate]]
* '''Astodiya gate''' ({{coord|23|1|0|N|72|35|27|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Astodiya gate}}) : doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches seventeen feet broad and twenty-five high with a platform 28x27, pierced for three guns. Now traffic island. ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-35)
* '''Mahuda gate''' with a roofed platform 30x21 and twenty feet high. This gateway was ill-omened and was built up and never used. It is spoken of as the Shut, ''Bandh'', gate, and is probably the Dhedriah gate mentioned in the ''Mirat-i-Ahmadi''. Lost but rebuilt later.<ref name="Timesxx">{{cite web | title=Lost & found: City to get Mahuda Darwaza back | website=Ahmedabad Mirror | date=21 March 2010 | url=http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/getpage.aspx?articles=yes&pageid=2&max=true&articleid=Ar00200§id=1edid=&edlabel=AMIR&mydateHid=21-03-2010&pubname=Mirror+-+Ahmedabad+-+City&title=Lost+%26+found%3A+City+to+get+Mahuda+Darwaza+back&edname=&publabel=MM | accessdate=11 January 2015}}</ref>
* '''Jamalpur gate''' ({{coord|23|0|44|N|72|34|53|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Jamalpur gate}}) : a gateway of three stone arches twenty-two feet broad and twenty-seven high and a roofed platform 32 X 27, pierced for one gun.
* '''Khan Jahan gate''' ({{coord|23|1|0.53|N|72|35|27.34|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Khanjahan gate}}) : An arched gateway, iron plated doors and an open platform 26x20 and twenty-two feet high. It was near this gate that in 1780 the British breached the wall and took the city by assault.
* '''Raikhad gate'''({{coord|23|1|8.56|N|72|34|43.91|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Khanjahan gate}}): 2050 feet north of the Khan Jahan gate, has three stone arches and an iron-plated door. Access to river in the past.
* '''Manek gate''': North of Raikhad and about 158 feet south-east of Ganesh is the Manek gate which is small in size and has stone steps. Now lost.
* '''Khanpur gate''' ({{coord|23|1|48|N|72|34|37|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Khanpur gate}}), the doors of iron-plated timber, the gateway of three stone arches twenty-four feet high by seventeen broad with a roofed platform 31 X20.
* Other Bhadra gates: the three citadel gates, Ganesh, Ram, and Baradari in the centre.

Two new gates added by British after the opening of railways connecting [[Bombay]] in 1864 to facilitate the movement of public.
[[File:Prem Darvaja.jpg|thumb|Prem Darwaja]]
* '''Prem Darwaja''' ({{coord|23|2|6|N|72|35|48|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Prem Darwaja}}) : Formerly Premabhai Gate, Saracenic in style, 16 feet broad and as many high, was built in 1864 at a cost of £914 (Rs. 9140). ([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-22)
[[File:Panchkuva Gate Ahmedabad.jpg|thumb|Panchkuva Darwaja]]
* '''Panchkuva gate''' ({{coord|23|1|30|N|72|35|49|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Panchkuva gate}}) : At a cost of £1115 (Rs. 11,450), built in 1871 for easy access to the railway station. Three gateways of pointed arches, the central one 18 feet wide and 28 feet high; and each side gateway 7 feet wide and 19 high.([[Archaeological Survey of India|ASI]] [[Monument of National Importance|MNI]] No. N-GJ-10)

===Other gates===
[[File:Shah alam complex.jpg|thumb|Shah-e-Alam gate in 1880s]]
'''Kharu gate''' was built near Karanj to give soldiers addition post. '''Halim ni Khidki''' ({{coord|23|2|18|N|72|35|2|E|display=inline|type:landmark|name=Halim ni Khidki}}) was a small window gate in north. There were gates which gave entry into suburbs of Ahmedabad: '''Gomtipur gate''' and '''Shah-e-Alam gate''' of [[Shah-e-Alam's Roza]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Teen-Darwaza.jpg|Teen Darwaja
File:Delhi Darwaja - (3).jpg|Delhi Darwaja
</gallery>

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==See also==
* [[Ahmedabad]]
* [[Fort and Gates of Ahmedabad]]
* [[History of Ahmedabad]]
* [[List of gates in India]]
* [[Teen Darwaza]]

==References==
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* ''This article contains public domain text from'' {{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275|year=1879|publisher=Government Central Press|pages=273–277}}

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