TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pandian, Anand
AU  - Mariappan, M.P.
TI  - Ayya's accounts
SN  - 9789386224439
U1  - Biography PAN-A 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - India
PB  - Indian University Press
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ayya's life - Life of an ordinary man
N1  - 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
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