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Autore |
Pandian Anand |
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Titolo |
Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India / / Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena Das |
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Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tamil (Indic people) - India |
Tamil (Indic people) - India - Social conditions - 20th century |
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Nadars - Social conditions - 20th century |
India Social conditions 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 Come23. Oakland, 1997; 24. Burma, Once Again; 25. Okpo, 2002; 26. Giving and Taking; 27. Listening to My Grandfather; Afterword by Veena Das; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography |
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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 |
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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, |
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