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Stepwells: India's Underground Palaces of Water
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Stepwells: India's Underground Palaces of Water

For a thousand years, communities in Gujarat and Rajasthan built stepwells that sank storeys below the earth to reach the water. Part infrastructure, part palace, they are being rediscovered.

By FOTOLEXA Asia Desk · 25 October 2026 · 3 min read