Bawari ki Bas, Rajasthan | Stepwell Photo
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A photo of the village headman in front of the small village stepwell in Rajasthan called the Bawari ki Bas.
Driving through back lanes in Rajasthan in 2018 we approach the village of Bas and find a village well just where we hoped!
The well is dry and full of leaves from the overhanging trees. The Bawari ki Bas stepwell is one of the most beautiful small village wells we've seen and the village headman seems delighted, though puzzled, that we love it so much. He tells us that the Bas people migrated here from another part of India about 70 years ago, probably at the time of Partition. The village is called Bawdi ki Bas so appears to be named after the stepwell.
We get a wonderful view up the well shaft and marvel yet again at the ingenuity and skill - not to mention the immense labour - that went into the construction of even a small, modest well like this. A crowd gathers to watch these strangers who've come to see their well.
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Portrait format. The image is slightly longer than the A3 proportions, it is the second image.
A guide to approx sizes
A3: 42x28cm
A2: 59.4x39cm
75x50cm
