Oxhey World - India - Village Life

Bhravangar village. Look at the dry sandy earth. The cows roam freely.

More than ¾ of the people who live in India live in villages all across the country. Many of these villages have small groups of houses close together, usually built around a square where the people gather. All around the village are the farmers fields.

Look at the difference in the two pictures.

Why do you think this is?

A village scene with green grass and trees.

People collecting water from the village well.

The well is the centre of the village life and lots of people meet there. It gives water for the people to drink, to wash with, for cooking, for cleaning and for watering the fields.

Washing with water from the village well.

Not long ago the wells were open and people and animals could just walk right into them. This made them very dirty and made the people poorly because of the germs. Now most wells have a cover and this has made the number of diseases go down. Lots of the modern wells have electric pumps to lift the water up.