Entrée principale:

Livingston, Morna, 1941- author, photographer.

Titre et auteur:

Steps to water : the ancient stepwells of India / Morna Livingston ; foreword by Milo Beach.

Édition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]
©2002

Description:

xxv, 211 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.
Introduction -- Chronology -- Maps -- I. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. High Hindu stepwells : -- Brahmin architects and sompara engineers -- Stepwell innovations -- Patan, a Hindu queens' stepwell -- More Solanki buildings -- 4. Fusion wells : -- Adapting to Muslim rule -- The stepwells of queens and sultans -- 5. 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 -- 6. The British and beyond : -- Louis Rousselet visits Tintio -- The archaeological survey of India -- Running on empty -- 7. 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 -- 8. 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.

Résumé:

Steps to Water traces the fascinating history of stepwells, from their Hindu origins, to their second flowering during Muslim rule, and eventual decline under British occupation. It also reflects on their current use, preservation, and place in Indian communities.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568983247
9781568983240

Sujet:

Stepwells India.
Water and architecture India.
Eau et architecture Inde.
21.71 commercial and industrial buildings.
Stepwells
Water and architecture
Zisterne
Waterputten.
India
Indien

Classification/genre:

Authors' autographs. PPA

Vedettes secondaires:

Beach, Milo, author of introduction, etc.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 221892
Cote: NA2542.8 .L5 2002
Statut: Disponible