| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mariappan, M. P., 1919-
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| SUBJECT |
Mariappan, M. P., 1919- fast |
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Tamil (Indic people) -- India -- Biography
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Tamil (Indic people) -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Nadars -- Biography
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Nadars -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Merchants -- India -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Merchants
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Nadars
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Social conditions
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Tamil (Indic people)
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Tamil (Indic people) -- Social conditions
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India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mariappan, M. P., 1919- author.
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Das, Veena, writer of afterword
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| ISBN |
9780253012661 |
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025301266X |
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