The Empty Village Overnight: Kuldara

In northwestern India lies a desert, within which stands a village that has been empty for two hundred years, called Kuldara. Rows of stone houses, roofless, no one living in them.

The local legend goes: the village was inhabited by Brahmins, wealthy and cultured, who moved there in the thirteenth century. One year, the local minister Salim Singh took a fancy to the village head's daughter and wanted to forcibly marry her, giving the village a deadline. The whole village deliberated and decided they would rather all leave than give in, so overnight, several thousand people abandoned the village, along with more than eighty nearby villages, and left together. Before departing, they laid a curse, saying that whoever dared to live there would surely die.

After that, the place remained deserted. Now tourists can enter during the day, with signs posted, and must leave after sunset.

However, later scholars went to verify the matter, saying that the claim of "overnight" is unlikely. That area lacked water, had experienced earthquakes, and there were heavy taxes; the villagers should have moved away bit by bit, around the early nineteenth century.

But the locals still love telling that version, because it is more like a story.

In recent years, the government has turned this place into a scenic spot. The stone slab roads on the ground, the walls of the houses, have all been repaired, and lawns have been planted in the courtyards. Every afternoon at five or six o'clock, the gatekeeper will close the gate and let the tourists out.

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