Experiencing the step-wells of Gujarat

The history of India spans over more than 2000 years. It has different states each with its own distinctive social and cultural character. The western regions of India have a hot and semi- arid climate with irregular rainfall. There was always a need to collect water of monsoon rains to utilize it during the dry months of the year. That is how the step-wells came into existence and India is a home to hundreds of them. Recent innovations like taps, hand pumps, plumbing, and water tanks reduced the physical need of the step-wells and these marvels ignored by the communities slowly converted from social gathering spaces to filthy breeding grounds for disease and parasites. India is is a developing nation and it is our great opportunity today to conserve and promote these monuments and their priceless architecture before it disappears for all time to come. Step-well, whether it is simple and utilitarian or complex and ornamented has a unique character. All of them have strikingly beautiful architecture.