Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition - Softcover

Wiser, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520227107 ISBN 13: 9780520227101

Verlag: University of California Press, 2000

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Book by Wiser William Wiser Charlotte Wadley Susan S

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"An important first-hand study of two phenomena which are characteristic of modern India -- namely, the impact upon village life of the new ways which have come with independence; and the social and personal disorganization which tends to afflict the young amidst the rapid growth of urbanization."--"Times Literary Supplement

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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 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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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0520227107
• ISBN 13: 9780520227101
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408