TY  - GEN
AU  - Mehta Bhatt, Purnima
TI  - Her space, her story : exploring the stepwells of Gujarat
SN  - 9789383074495
U1  - 725.95 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Zubaan
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
List of Photographs ix   
Acknowledgements           xi
1	Introduction	1
2	Significance and Sanctity of Water in India	5
3	Origin and Development of Stepwells (7th- 19th Centuries) 14
4	The Woman Factor	24
5	Description of Individual Stepwells	35
6	Place of Women in Society	60
7	Queen's Stepwell (Rani ni vav) - Patan, Gujarat	72
8	Voices from the Deep	91
9	Art, Symbolism and the Iconography of Stepwells	107
10	Birds and Nature in the Stepwells of Gujarat	120
11	Stepwells Today	133
Bibliography	140
About the Author and Photographer	147
Index	149


ER  -