
Behind Mud Walls
Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 10. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
404 pages
978-0-520-22710-1 (ISBN)
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 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 outside world; and describes the day-to-day life of people who live in the village--the education of the young, life in the courtyard, castes, marriage, and family. The book now stands as a personal and insightful story of the village and the people who came to study it.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
21 b-w photographs, 4 tables, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-22710-1 (9780520227101)
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Previous edition

William Wiser | Charlotte Wiser
Behind Mud Walls, 1930-1960
With a Sequel: The Village in 1970 and a New Chapter by Susan S. Wadley: The Village in 1984, Revised Edition
Book
03/1972
1st Edition
University of California Press
€13.56
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Persons
William and Charlotte Wiser set up Indian Village Service, a community oriented village development organization that became one of the key models used by the Indian government for its Block Development Programs. Susan S. Wadley is Ford Maxwell Professor of south Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 (California 1994). David G. Mandelbaum is author of Society in India (California, 1990).
Content
FOREWORD
PREFACE TO THE 2000 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE 1989 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1930
BEHIND MUD WALLS 1930-1960
I FRIEND OR FOE?
II THE LEADERS
III THOSE WHO FOLLOW
IV THE UNTOUCHABLES
V OCCUPANTS OF THE FRONT ROOM
VI IN FAMILY COURTYARDS
VII THE YOUNGER GENERATION
VIII AGENTS OF AUTHORITY
IX "LET ALL THINGS OLD ABIDE"
X RETURN TO THE FAMILIAR
XI THE NEW
XII THE YOUNG MEN SPEAK
THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIII THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIV POSTSCRIPT
THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XV THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XVI THE VILLAGE IN 1998
THE VILLAGE IN 1998
APPENDIX: DEMOGRAPHIC TABLES
APPENDIX: PHOTOGRAPHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
PREFACE TO THE 2000 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE 1989 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1930
BEHIND MUD WALLS 1930-1960
I FRIEND OR FOE?
II THE LEADERS
III THOSE WHO FOLLOW
IV THE UNTOUCHABLES
V OCCUPANTS OF THE FRONT ROOM
VI IN FAMILY COURTYARDS
VII THE YOUNGER GENERATION
VIII AGENTS OF AUTHORITY
IX "LET ALL THINGS OLD ABIDE"
X RETURN TO THE FAMILIAR
XI THE NEW
XII THE YOUNG MEN SPEAK
THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIII THE VILLAGE IN 1970
XIV POSTSCRIPT
THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XV THE VILLAGE IN 1984
XVI THE VILLAGE IN 1998
THE VILLAGE IN 1998
APPENDIX: DEMOGRAPHIC TABLES
APPENDIX: PHOTOGRAPHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX