Behind mud walls
Subtitle: seventy-five years in a north Indian village
By: William H. Wiser, Charlotte Viall Wiser with chapters by Susan S. Wadley and a foreword by David G. Mandelbaum.
Contributors: Wiser, Charlotte Viall.; Wiser, Charlotte Viall.; Wadley, Susan Snow, 1943-; Wadley, Susan Snow, 1943-
Edition: Updated and expanded ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Villages -- India -- Case studies.; Karimpur (India) -- Social conditions.; Karimpur (India) -- Economic conditions.; India -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: 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 encapsulates 75 years of continuity and change in the village.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-368) and index.