The Badi Baoli is one amongst six large water reservoirs within the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park. These were no doubt built by the Qutb Shahi rulers to store water for irrigating the orchards planted at the tombs. In the 19th century, this ‘tank’ was provided with a formal structure including the arcade and in the proicess blocked natural water drainage into the structure. Under the immense pressure exerted by collected rainwater, the 19th century masonry collapsed in the summer of 2013
Background Image: the baoli c. 1860 from Captain Allan Newton Scott; ‘Tombs of the Ancient Kings of Golconda’ from Tata Trusts Sketches in India taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency Source: Alkazi Foundation
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- Baoli through the ages In Qutb Shahi Heritage Park: Conservation and Landscape Restoration. Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2016.