Where does Tony live in the opening pages of the novel, East Indian?

The Coromandel is an alluvial region of India that Tony calls home at the beginning of the novel. As the novel progresses, it increasingly comes to represent Tony's childhood; he frequently recalls the landscape there and is moved by the phrase "spiced air" in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream because it recalls to mind the scents of his homeland. For a long period of time, Tony sees return to the Coromandel as his life's goal, and he works tirelessly to secure passage back that way, but he eventually abandons this idea in order to lay down roots in America instead. The Coromandel does continue to accompany him, though, as he begins to fuse Christian religion with the religious teachings from his childhood.