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Chettinadu's ancestral mansions

Umayal is 90 years old, frail but still active and sharp. She lives alone in an enormous old house in the small village of Athangudi in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu. She came to the village, and the house, at age 16 after her wedding. Her husband died many years ago, and her sons and grandsons live in Chennai or outside India. “Till 10 years ago,” says Umayal, “at least 30 people lived in this house.

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