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A reservoir built to bring water to Mandore, older than Jodhpur itself, later ringed with orchards and a royal summer palace.
Jodhpur's oldest and busiest bazaar hums beneath a clock from the same maker as Big Ben.
A marble cenotaph and cremation ground of the Rathore family, its thin polished marble glowing warm in sunlight.
Marwar's original capital before Rao Jodha moved it, later the royal cremation ground, marked by red-sandstone cenotaphs among gardens.
It rises 122 metres above the plains on 36-metre walls, and is still run by the royal family's museum trust.
Seventy hectares of volcanic rock over 700 million years old are being brought back to native Thar desert plants.
Buried under decades of debris, this 18th-century stepwell was restored and reopened as a public gathering place.
Commissioned as a famine-relief employment project, it is today part royal residence, part luxury hotel, part museum.