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Presidential Address: Contending Narratives—The Political Life of the Indian Epics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Barbara Stoler Miller
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Unlike edward cameron dimock, Henry David Thoreau never traveled to India, but he imagined Yankee merchant ships transporting ice blocks from Walden Pond to New Orleans and Calcutta, where the pure Walden water would mingle with the sacred water of the Ganges. Less romantically, one can imagine the Walden ice mingling with British gin and tonic in clubs of the East India Company. In our own time, Ed Dimock has brought America and India together in more significant ways. I'm delighted that he is in New Orleans today—honoring him seems a wonderful way of celebrating ourselves on this fiftieth anniversary of the Association for Asian Studies.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , November 1991 , pp. 783 - 792
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991

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