This paper examines how the book, "Behind Mud Walls" by Charlotte and William Wiser, chronicles the
lives of the
women of
Karimpur up to the year of 1960. It looks at how these rural
women, their husbands, and children, were studied over a period of seventy-five years and shows how, during the 1960s, 1970s, 1984, and eventually into the 1990's, the changes and the stasis inherent in the
lives of the women of Karimpur were chronicled. It also discusses how the study proved particularly interesting, given the volatile political and social situation in India at the time.