03459nam 2200673 450 991082195950332120230126212210.00-253-01266-X(CKB)2670000000529460(EBL)1645281(SSID)ssj0001131731(PQKBManifestationID)11666540(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131731(PQKBWorkID)11146547(PQKB)11572971(MiAaPQ)EBC1645281(OCoLC)871860615(MdBmJHUP)muse35058(Au-PeEL)EBL1645281(CaPaEBR)ebr10845350(CaONFJC)MIL579402(EXLCZ)99267000000052946020140322h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAyya's accounts a ledger of hope in modern India /Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena DasBloomington, Indiana ;Indianapolis, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01250-3 0-253-01258-9 Includes bibliographical references.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, 199222. 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; BibliographyAyya'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, Tamil (Indic people)IndiaBiographyTamil (Indic people)IndiaSocial conditions20th centuryNadarsBiographyNadarsSocial conditions20th centuryIndiaSocial conditions20th centuryTamil (Indic people)Tamil (Indic people)Social conditionsNadarsNadarsSocial conditions954/.82Pandian Anand1651734Māriyappa Nāṭār Mu. PeDas VeenaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821959503321Ayya's accounts4001859UNINA