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Behind Mud Walls is a humane, dispassionate study of North Indian village life. More than a generation ago, William and Charlotte Wiser came to India as American missionaries and during their stay made a significant contribution to anthropology by writing one of the first Indian village studies. This revised edition contains not only their classic 1930 study and Mrs. Wiser's appraisals of continuity and change in the village life of Karimpur during the 1960s and ...
Astronomy, as defined in modern idiom, is the Science of Stars or other heavenly bodies. There are innumerable stars, it is observed, which never undergo any change as regard to their relative situations. They are fixed. It is precisely this characteristic of the stars that provides a foundation to any system of astronomy. Hindu recorded their observations of stars or other heavenly bodies, made more than three thousand years before the Christian Era, in ...