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050  4 DS489.25.T3|bP35813 2014 
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100 1  Pandian, Anand,|eauthor. 
240 10 Micham meethi.|lEnglish 
245 10 Ayya's accounts :|ba ledger of hope in modern India /
       |cAnand Pandian & M.P. Mariappan ; afterword by Veena Das.
264  1 Bloomington, Indiana :|bIndiana University Press,|c[2014] 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  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. 
520    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 ... 
588 0  Print version record. 
600 10 Mariappan, M. P.,|d1919- 
650  0 Tamil (Indic people)|zIndia|vBiography. 
650  0 Tamil (Indic people)|zIndia|xSocial conditions|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Nadars|vBiography. 
650  0 Nadars|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
650  0 Merchants|zIndia|vBiography. 
650  7 HISTORY|zAsia|xIndia & South Asia.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xAnthropology|xCultural.|2bisacsh 
651  0 India|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
700 1  Mariappan, M. P.,|d1919-|eauthor. 
700 1  Das, Veena,|ewriter of afterword. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aPandian, Anand.|sMicham meethi. English.
       |tAyya's accounts.|dBloomington, Indiana : Indiana 
       University Press, [2014]|z0253012589|w(DLC)  2013042011
       |w(OCoLC)857276891 
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