Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India

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Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India

Anand Pandian & M.P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena Das

Indiana University Press, c2014

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Originally published: [Nagercoil, India] : Kalachuvadu, 2012

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216)

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Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man-orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather-during a century of tremendous hope and upheaval. Born in colonial India into a despised caste of former tree climbers, Ayya lost his mother as a child and came of age in a small town in lowland Burma. Forced to flee at the outbreak of World War II, he made a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by foot, boat, bullock cart, and rail back to southern India. Becoming a successful fruit merchant, Ayya educated and eventually settled many of his descendants in the United States. Luck, nerve, subterfuge, and sorrow all have their place along the precarious route of his advancement. Emerging out of tales told to his American grandson, Ayya's Accounts embodies a simple faith-that the story of a place as large and complex as modern India can be told through the life of a single individual.

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Preface 1. A Century of Experience 2. In Some Village, Somewhere 3. Taj Malabar Hotel, 2005 4. Things I Didn't Know I'd Lost 5. Pudur, 2012 6. A Decade in Burma 7. Okpo, 1940 8. When the War Came 9. Kovilpatti, 1946 10. A New Life at Home 11. Victoria Studio, 1949 12. Dealing Cloth in a Time of War 13. Dindigul, 1951 14. A Foothold in Madurai 15. Gopal Studio, 1953 16. A Shop of My Own 17. Madurai Fruit Merchants Association, 1960 18. Branches in Many Directions 19. Norwalk, 1974 20. Between Madurai and America 21. Madurai, 1992 22. What Comes Will Come 23. Oakland, 1997 24. Burma, Once Again 25. Okpo, 2002 26. Giving and Taking 27. Listening to My Grandfather Afterword \ Veena Das Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

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