News — Rajasthan

Buddhist Ruins in Rajasthan In March 2018 I resumed my search for the subterranean architectures of western India known as stepwells. This took me near a village called Viratnagar, just a few miles from the main Delhi to Jaipur highway and close to the location of an old Buddhist site called Bhairat.Some of my 2017 stepwell photographs are on display at the Silk Road Gallery showroom in Sheffield until Easter 2018, you can see the images here.A newly painted Viratnagar stepwell.We don't tend to think of Buddhism having been practised in Rajasthan, the semi desert state in the west of India, but there are a few...