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Kuldhara
village near Jaisalmer has a very unique history! It is said that the
residents of 84 neighboring villages including Kuldhara vacated the
villages overnight around 170 years back!! No one is sure where they
have gone, but they are believed to have migrated to a place somewhere
near Jodhpur. The residents were Paliwal Brahmans — said to be very
intelligent, and residing there for about 500 years. So what made them
do such an act? Stories say that the ruler of these villages pounded the
Paliwals with heavy taxes and treated them very inhumanly; the ruler
was unethical and forceful to them. They had no alternative, but to
vacate all the 84 villages overnight and just disappear from the vision
and reach of the ruler. When the Paliwals left the villages, they left a
curse that nobody can inhabit the villages ever. Residents of Jaisalmer
say that there have been some attempts by some families to stay there,
but they did not succeed. 22 more images after the break...
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Sumar lal, the gate keeper at Kuldhara ruins.
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