Ayya's Accounts A Ledger of Hope in Modern India

Name: Ayya's Accounts A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
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ISBN: 9780253012500

ISBN-10: 0253012503

ISBN-13: 9780253012500

Edition: 2014

Authors: Anand Pandian, M. P. Mariappan, Veena Das

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Ayya’s Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man–orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather–during a century of hope and upheaval in India. 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 returned to southern India after a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by rail, boat, bullock cart, and foot. There he became a successful fruit merchant and helped many of his descendants get settled in the United States. Ayya’s story underscores the luck, nerve, subterfuge, and sorrow that he encountered along hisprecarious route of his advancement.…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Anand Pandian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India.Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.



Preface



A Century of Experience



In Some Village, Somewhere



Taj Malabar Hotel, 2005



Things I Didn't Know I'd Lost



Pudur, 2012



A Decade in Burma



Okpo, 1940



When the War Came



Kovilpatti, 1946



A New Life at Home



Victoria Studio, 1949



Dealing Cloth in a Time of War



Dindigul, 1951



A Foothold in Madurai



Gopal Studio, 1953



A Shop of My Own



Madurai Fruit Merchants Association, 1960



Branches in Many Directions



Norwalk, 1974



Between Madurai and America



Madurai, 1992



What Comes Will Come



Oakland, 1997



Burma, Once Again



Okpo, 2002



Giving and Taking



Listening to My Grandfather


Afterword



Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography