Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India / / Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena Das

• Autore: Pandian Anand
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 954/.82
• Soggetto topico: Tamil (Indic people) - India; Tamil (Indic people) - India - Social conditions - 20th century; Nadars; Nadars - Social conditions - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: India Social conditions 20th century
• Persona (resp. second.): Māriyappa NāṭārMu. Pe; DasVeena
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Ayya's accounts
• ISBN: 0-253-01266-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821959503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II