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



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Autore: Pandian Anand Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India / / Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena Das Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-253-01266-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787896303321
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