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

Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, co-editor of Ethical Life in South Asia (IUP, 2011) and Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, and a contributor to Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2010).

M. P. Mariappan (1919-2014) was a retired fruit merchant living in the south Indian city of Madurai at the time he co-authored Ayya's Accounts.

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her many books include Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary.

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Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, co-editor of Ethical Life in South Asia (IUP, 2011) and Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, and a contributor to Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2010).
M. P. Mariappan (1919-2014) was a retired fruit merchant living in the south Indian city of Madurai at the time he co-authored Ayya's Accounts.
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her many books include Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary.

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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 returned to southern India after a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by rail, boat, bullock cart, and foot.

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• Autori: Anand Pandian, M. P. Mariappan, Veena Das, Anand Mariappan Pandian, Pandian Anand, Mariappan M P
• Con la collaborazione di: Afterword by Veena Das Anand Pandian and (Editore)
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 17.03.2014
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia
• EAN: 9780253012500
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01250-0
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Serie: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Categorie: Asiatische Geschichte; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Indischer Subkontinent; Biography / Autobiography; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia