 The fort is in ruins and still it stands as the mute witness to many rulers, who have used it as their administrative Headquarters to rule over this region named in
different periods as Kalinga, Kalinga, Dandapat, Ganjam, Chichacole Circar etc.It is not a single fort, rather a cluster of forts erected by different governments, the remnants of which tell the stories of their administrative procedures.Thus the history of Potagarh is the history of the Ganjam Collectorate that involves
the history of Ganjam, Northern Circars, French Government, Madras Presidency, Bengal Presidency and the history of the East India Company as a whole.