SHARDA CHAURASIYA, Mithai Walli

(Q1): INTERVIEWER: Do we have your permission to tape recorder and put it on a computer?

(A1) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: You ask me something and then I'll talk.

(Q1) INTERVIEWER: Please tell us something about yourself, about your work about your family?

(A2) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: What can I tell you. Well, right now I'm sitting around-I'm not doing any work at all. Nothing. I'm just looking around.

(Q3) INTERVIEWER: And your family?

(A3) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: We farm and make sweets and sell them.

(Q4) INTERVIEWER: How long has your family been here?

(A4) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: For a long time, from the time of my husband's father, three generations.

(Q5) INTERVIEWER: How long in this village?

(A5) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: It's our birthplace.

(Q6) INTERVIEWER: When did your family first come here?

(A6) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: Three generations ago.

(Q7) INTERVIEWER: From where?

(A7) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: I have no idea.

(Q8) INTERVIEWER: Is there anything special about Arampur?

(A8) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: Well, someone with that knowledge can tell you, can't they?

(Q9) INTERVIEWER: In the last thirty years, what changes have you seen?

(A9) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: There's been a lot of changes---there's more money.

(Q10) INTERVIEWER: What else?

(A10) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: We'll I don't know.

(Q 11) INTERVIEWER: Americans don't know that much about India , could you tell them something about India ?

(A11) SHARDA CHAURASIYA: I really don't know that much-my mind isn't as strong as it was.