Photo Journal

Jodhpur Fort

Dressed to attend a wedding.

Agriculture and Cell phone towers are growing together.

Marwari speakers walking on a dirt path to their village through fields.

Marwari countryside, dry and irrigated.

Irrigation is being used to sustain farms in rural Marwari speaking areas that are normally arid or semi arid.

The current irrigation technique involves localized flooding of field sections. Evaporation takes a great deal of the water.

Fabric dyeing is part of the local textile industry. The process is often by hand.

Some of the local fort's internal architecture.

Some of the local fort's external architecture.

Some of the local fort's external architecture.

A ceiling in a room of the fort shows the detailed stone work.

A view of the "Blue City" from the fort.

A view of the "Blue City" from the fort.

A view of the "Blue City" from the fort.

A old fort building in the foreground, the city in the midfield and off in the distance the recently constructed palace.

British colonial influence is seen in the canons on the fort walls and the straight road leading to the clock tower in Jodhpur.