Four generations:
Three continents: Two world wars: One village
These are tales spanning four generations spread across three continents in between and after the two world wars of people who set forth under different circumstances from one small village called Agaramangudi.
These are tales spanning four generations spread across three continents in between and after the two world wars of people who set forth under different circumstances from one small village called Agaramangudi.
The story line traverses through different time lines, locations or
incidents with no particular order. The only order being the
alphabetical one – A to Z meant purposefully for the A to Z challenge. These
posts can be read as standalone posts, but would be best comprehended if
you read them along with their prelude provided as a link.
Years in Chronology
Years in Chronology
Y –
Years in chronology
I
cannot take refuge in clichéd disclaimer ‘All characters featured in this Tale
are fictitious and any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental’
Here is
what is closer to truth.
Many
characters featured here were people who lived and are living. Abundant care
has been taken not to potray anyone in poor light. All names have been changed
to maintain the anonymity of all those living as well as dead. Should anyone take objection to anything that has been depicted here, please connect with me and we can take it further.
All characters and incidents captured through this A to Z challenge were based on 40% reality, 30% Fiction and the rest as a heady mix and match of fact, fiction, narration, imagination and extrapolation.
This post is an attempt to separate fact and fiction
The
following years in chronology alternates between the fictitious ones featured
over here and the real ones that occurred through the last 100 years.
1907 – Sundari was married to Sapthagiri
Shastry’s grandson and went on to live
in Calcutta
1910 –
1914 – Mass Migration of lower caste farm labourers from India as indentured
workers to Mauritius and Jamaica from the Ports of Madras and Bombay.
1914 – Recently widowed Maragatham Padayachi sees off her son
Manickam Padayachi at Karaikkal Port who
enlists as an indentured labourer to work in the sugar plantations in Mauritius.
1914 – Sri Lakshmi Nivas was built by Natesa Iyer
where he moved in after his marriage to
Lakshmi Ponnammal.
1914 – World war one breaks out in Europe.
1916 - Maragatham Padayachi gives birth to a baby boy at the cattle shed in Agaramangudi
1916 - Maragatham Padayachi gives birth to a baby boy at the cattle shed in Agaramangudi
1917 – Cousins Subbu and Kittu were born
months apart from each other.
1929 – E V Ramasamy Naicker, later known as E V R Periyar announced the
deletion of his caste surname Naicker (Naidu) from his name at the First Provincial
Self-Respect Conference of Chenggalpattu
1930 – Sundari sails on a voyage from the
Bombay port to South Hampton along with her husband to Geneva.
1930 – Sir C V Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physics in Stockholm, the second Indian to receive the award after Rabindranath Tagore
1939 – E V R Periyar founded the Justice
party renamed as Dravidar Kazhagam in 1944.
1939 -
Subbu and Kittu attempt to run away from Agaramangudi to enlist into the
Pattalam.
1940 –
British commonwealth army enlists 200,000 volunteers from India to fight the World war II in North Africa and Europe.
1941 – British
fight the Germans in North Africa
1942 – Susee marries Subbu and steps into Sri
Lakshmi Nivas where she would live for the next 40 years.
1944 – British
fight the Germans in Italy
1945 – End of
World war II. The Americans drop the
bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1947 – Indian independence
1948 - Kittu marries Parminder Kaur
1948 - Kittu marries Parminder Kaur
1952 – Maalu and Neelu, Subbu and Kittu's daughters are born days apart from each other.
1961 - Nagammai, Sivachami Padayachi's wife passes away. Their nine year old daughter Thenmozhi leaves Agaramangudi to live with her maternal grandmother and uncle.
1969 - A disenchanted Nammazhvar, who would later become famous for advocating organic farming resigns his job at the Agricultural Research institute at kovilpatti.
1971 – Maalu gets engaged to be married. Drops off from college.
1961 - Nagammai, Sivachami Padayachi's wife passes away. Their nine year old daughter Thenmozhi leaves Agaramangudi to live with her maternal grandmother and uncle.
1969 - A disenchanted Nammazhvar, who would later become famous for advocating organic farming resigns his job at the Agricultural Research institute at kovilpatti.
1971 – Maalu gets engaged to be married. Drops off from college.
1979 - Sivachami Padayachi passes away.
1982 – Subbu and Susee migrate to Madras for good.
2002 - Subbu passes away from natural causes due to old age in Chennai.
1982 – Subbu and Susee migrate to Madras for good.
2002 - Subbu passes away from natural causes due to old age in Chennai.
2007 – S P Thenmozhi is elected as the Panchayat
President of Agaramangudi Taluk
2008 – Sub-Prime crisis and the onset of global recession.
2010 – Susee passes away in Whitefield, Bangalore.
200,000 volunteers from India to fight the World war II in North Africa and Europe. .... wonder how many came back.
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