Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Satara
The correct answer is Satara. - Pratapgad is located in the Satara district in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra.
- Pratapgad literally 'Valour Fort' is a large mountain fort.
- The fort's historical significance is due to the Battle of Pratapgad in 1659.
- The fort is now a popular tourist destination.
- The Maratha ruler Shivaji commissioned Moropant Trimbak Pingle, his prime minister, to undertake the construction of this fort in order to defend the banks of the Nira and the Koyna rivers and to defend the Par pass.
- The Battle of Pratapgad between Shivaji and Afzal Khan was fought below the ramparts of this fort on 10 November 1659.
- Satara city gets its name from the seven forts (Sat-Tara) which are around the city.
- The city is known as a Soldier's city as well as Pensioner's city.
- Satara was the first Princely state that came under East India Company under Doctrine of Lapse in 1848.
- The doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Dalhousie.
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