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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (in English)
Anand Pandian
(Author)
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M. P. Mariappan
(Author)
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Veena Das
(Epilogue by)
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Indiana University Press
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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (in English) - Pandian, Anand ; Mariappan, M. P. ; Das, Veena
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Synopsis "Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (in English)"
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, and sorrow all have their place along the precarious route of his advancement. Emerging out of tales told to his American grandson, Ayya's Accounts embodies a simple faith--that the story of a place as large and complex as modern India can be told through the life of a single individual.
