Pandian, Anand <br/><br/>
Ayya's accounts / 
Anand pandian and MP Mariappan 
 - India  Indian University Press  2014 
 - 309 p. 
<br/><br/> 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 ... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789386224439 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biography<br/>Ayya's life - Life of an ordinary man
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Biography PAN-A