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132: 99: 302: 205: 22: 139: 106: 317:, presents an unusual biography of Rājamatī, the patron. She is said by the text to have received gifts from the Sultans of the seven leading kingdoms of the time, and built the water facility for travellers as an honourable act of public piety ( 379: 384: 394: 131: 167: 354:
Saarthak Singh, "Rethinking the Regional in Rājamatī’s World: Placemaking, Patronage and the Performance of Polity in Chanderi, c. 1479,"
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H. N. Dvivedī, ग्वालियर राज्य के अभिलेख (Gwalior, 1947), no. 303; Pushpa Prasad, "A Curious Step-well Stone Inscription of V.S. 1535,"
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is a water management structure dating to the end of the 1400s. It is located a short distance north of Singhpur village in
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was built by Rājamatī who is named in the inscription inserted in one of the walls of the structure.
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Rājmatī stepwell, interior, dated by inscription to VS 1535/1479 CE.
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39, no. 2 (2023): 186-206, DOI: 10.1080/02666030.2023.2287842.
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Possible location in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India
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Singhpur stepwell is located in India
Singhpur stepwell is located in Madhya Pradesh
24°35′N 78°06′E / 24.58°N 78.10°E / 24.58; 78.10
India
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Madhya Pradesh
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Ashoknagar
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Ashoknagar district
Madhya Pradesh
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Stepwells in India
Buildings and structures completed in the 1400s
Monuments and memorials in Madhya Pradesh
Ashoknagar district
Tourist attractions in Madhya Pradesh

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