{"product_id":"ayyas-accounts-a-ledger-of-hope-in-modern-india-9780253012500","title":"Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAyya's Accounts\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAyya's Accounts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anand Pandian, M. P. Mariappan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253012500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCrooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eEthical Life in South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2011) and \u003ci\u003eRace, Nature, and the Politics of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eEveryday Life in South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e (IUP, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. P. Mariappan (1919-2014) was a retired fruit merchant living in the south Indian city of Madurai at the time he co-authored \u003ci\u003eAyya's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAccounts\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVeena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eCritical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40210695258227,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_223966e0-23a0-4ab7-bbbb-881642140472.jpg?v=1656421735","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/ayyas-accounts-a-ledger-of-hope-in-modern-india-9780253012500","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}