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

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

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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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253012586
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 954.82
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 232
Weight: 531g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 14mm