Ghost Town Lady Exotic Travel India Rajasthan BnW 1f
by Sue Jacobi
Title
Ghost Town Lady Exotic Travel India Rajasthan BnW 1f
Artist
Sue Jacobi
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Photograph - Fine Art Photography - Digital Art
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Ghost Town Lady Exotic Travel India Rajasthan BnW 1f.
This is Sunita, an elderly woman who wanders around the ghost town of Kuldhara in India, Rajasthan. She is the only local person to be seen around this abandoned village. She entertains the visitors and loves to share with them, her version of the stories behind Kuldhara ghost town, adding a few bells and whistles as she goes along, to make it even more interesting.
Kuldhara is a ghost town in Rajasthan, India. It is an extremely intriguing village which has been abandoned since early 1800s and is believed to carry a curse of the residents who abandoned the village and migrated elsewhere.
Salim Singh, the then minister of the state, once visiting this village fell for this young beautiful girl and wanted to get married to her. The girl was the daughter of the chieftain and belonged to the clan of Paliwal Brahmins (upper caste folks).
The minister threatened the villagers that if they did not marry the girl to him, he would levy huge taxes. The chief of the village with those of other 84 adjoining villages decided to abandon their houses and villages, and migrate elsewhere, rather than be forced to get the girl to marry Salim Singh, who was from a different caste. Apparently, this caused one of the most intriguing migrations of mankind, and no one has any clue where all the people from these 84 villages landed up.
However there is another story as well:
Paliwals, originally Brahmins (upper caste folks), were native inhabitants of Pali, a small kingdom in the Thar desert. Sometime in 13th century, due to the meddling of the King of Pali into their everyday affairs and his atrocities, they migrated to a Village called Kuldhara in Jaisalmer. This is the first time when they were called Paliwal. Here they settled into 84 villages around the town of Jaisalmer. Paliwals were very benevolent people with a strong sense of community. Over a period, with the help of each other and collective trading practices with external traders, Paliwals prospered again. Their pros0perity became famous and that caused them to become targets of Mughal invasions. Paliwals bravely fought off most of these invasions until the last one sometime in 18th century. It is not clear who the invader was, but it was the day of the Raksha-bandhan festival. A large number of Paliwals were martyred. The war went on for days. On the last day, this Mughal invader ordered to put animal carcasses into all the wells which Paliwals used to get their water from. This caused this staunch religious Brahmin community of Paliwals, who are strict vegetarians and don�t eat any meat, to migrate from these villages. Overnight, they left the villages of Kuldhara and moved to other places. They also seemed to have left a curse on the village. The fear of this curse, stops the locals from venturing near these villages even till date. The villages remain totally deserted, bearing a strange, surreal look.
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