Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India by Pandian, Anand, author, Mariappan, M. P., 1919- author; Das, Veena, writer of afterword instant download

Ayya's accounts : a ledger of hope in modern India by Pandian, Anand, author, Mariappan, M. P., 1919- author; Das, Veena, writer of afterword instant download

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) :, 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 .., Includes bibliographical references, 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, Print version record