Behind Mud Walls Seventy-Five Years in a North Indian Village

Name: Behind Mud Walls Seventy-Five Years in a North Indian Village
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ISBN: 9780520227101

ISBN-10: 0520227107

ISBN-13: 9780520227101

Edition: 2010 (Revised)

Authors: William Wiser, Charlotte Wiser, David G. Mandelbaum, Susan S. Wadley

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In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years they wrote one of the first studies of village India, originally published in 1930. Charlotte Wiser continued to observe and write about the village until her death, when Susan Wadley picked up the narrative. With updates from the 1960s, 1970s, 1984, and 2000, this expanded edition now encapsulates seventy-five years of continuity and change in the village. The book traces the initial awkwardness between the Wisers and the villagers and the years of friendship and welcome that followed; sketches the social and economic changes brought on by the increasing encroachment of the…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.23" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Susan Snow Wadley is Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is author of Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925--1984 and co-author of a revised edition of William and Charlotte Wiser's classic Behind Mud Walls.