In Omkaresvar Mandhata, Jurgen Neuss offers a comprehensive survey of the extant historic monuments at this well-known island town, the most important place of pilgrimage in the Narmada valle)' and gives an overview of its history according to available- written sources. Although the place is known as all archaeological site since the middle of the Isth century. it has till date been overlooked that the remains are much more extensive and recurrent than the rarely published archaeological notes, that deal with only a few monuments. suggest. This hook provides a long overdue sonly of till' whole area which in there represents a conglomeration of three historic settlements. At the centre lies a thoroughly structured fortification ion, Mandhatrdurga, which represents the only. preserved fortified city of the Panamas of Dhara in the Narmada valley presently, known t o us