Per Wikiepdia, "Stepwells, also called bawdi or baoli, are wells in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps."
I highly recommend a stroll through the stepwell tag at Flickr. Here are a few highlights:


Via these sites.
*Previously: City in India has to pay residents to use toilets.
*Buy The Temple Architecture of India at Amazon.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
India's stepwells
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Some of these are reminiscent of scenes from The Fall. Are these the same wells?
Yes, I think so:
http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2008/06/ebert-gives-tarsems-fall-perfect-score.html
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