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- catalog contributor b12548577.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Chronology -- Maps -- Waiting for rain. The stepwell ; The stepped pond ; More than a bath ; Stone is pukkah ; The geography of water buildings -- The Gujarat-Rajasthan connection ; Climate and the monsoon -- Early water buildings. Ancient steps to water ; Stone-block stepwells at Dhank ; The Brahmin role ; The goddess and her company ; The stepped ponds of Gujarat ; The great stepped ponds of Rajasthan ; Hybrid wells -- High Hindu stepwells. Brahmin architects and sompara engineers ; Stepwell innovations ; Patan, a Hindu queens' stepwell ; More Solanki buildings -- Fusion wells. Adapting to Muslim rule ; The stepwells of queens and sultans -- Muslim water buildings. The Portuguese and Gujarat ; A final flowering of sultanate buildings ; Babur and the bathhouse ; The Mughals build ; Textiles, ceremony, and illusion ; New wells in Rajasthan ; Shekavati's wells ; Nahagarh, the first engineered water building -- The British and beyon. Louis Rousselet visits Tintoi ; The British view of water ; The archaeological survey of India ; Running on empty -- Ecosystem of the wells. Animals in the margins ; A walled garden ; The elusive guinea worm ; Clean water close up ; The Indian theory of how to mend ; The opposite of preservation -- Village stepwells today. Good Queen Rudabai ; Stepwells in the village ; Women at the wells ; Devi, the diva of vernacular preservation ; Mata Bhavani, a water-temple well ; Ghumli and the Saddhu -- Glossary -- Appendix: Medieval Indian sources on stepwells.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 211 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Steps to water.".
- catalog identifier "1568983247".
- catalog identifier "9781568983240".
- catalog isFormatOf "Steps to water.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Princeton Architectural Press,".
- catalog relation "Steps to water.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "725/.9 21".
- catalog subject "NA2542.8 .L58 2002".
- catalog subject "Stepwells India.".
- catalog subject "Water and architecture India.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Chronology -- Maps -- Waiting for rain. The stepwell ; The stepped pond ; More than a bath ; Stone is pukkah ; The geography of water buildings -- The Gujarat-Rajasthan connection ; Climate and the monsoon -- Early water buildings. Ancient steps to water ; Stone-block stepwells at Dhank ; The Brahmin role ; The goddess and her company ; The stepped ponds of Gujarat ; The great stepped ponds of Rajasthan ; Hybrid wells -- High Hindu stepwells. Brahmin architects and sompara engineers ; Stepwell innovations ; Patan, a Hindu queens' stepwell ; More Solanki buildings -- Fusion wells. Adapting to Muslim rule ; The stepwells of queens and sultans -- Muslim water buildings. The Portuguese and Gujarat ; A final flowering of sultanate buildings ; Babur and the bathhouse ; The Mughals build ; Textiles, ceremony, and illusion ; New wells in Rajasthan ; Shekavati's wells ; Nahagarh, the first engineered water building -- The British and beyon. Louis Rousselet visits Tintoi ; The British view of water ; The archaeological survey of India ; Running on empty -- Ecosystem of the wells. Animals in the margins ; A walled garden ; The elusive guinea worm ; Clean water close up ; The Indian theory of how to mend ; The opposite of preservation -- Village stepwells today. Good Queen Rudabai ; Stepwells in the village ; Women at the wells ; Devi, the diva of vernacular preservation ; Mata Bhavani, a water-temple well ; Ghumli and the Saddhu -- Glossary -- Appendix: Medieval Indian sources on stepwells.".
- catalog title "Steps to water : the ancient stepwells of India / Morna Livingston ; foreword by Milo Beach.".
- catalog type "text".