/ These ten essays on many aspects of Indian history and culture have beei\ gathered to honor Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr., on the occasion of his retirement from the presidency of the American Institute of Indian Studies. They cover many fields of current scholarship on South Asia and may serve, perhaps, as a representation of the vitality of studies in a field in which Ed Dimock has been a leader and teacher for several decades. ISBN 81-85054-07-X I Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation I https://archive.org/details/aspectsofindiaesOOcase ASPECTS OF INDIA i ASPECTS OF INDIA Essays in Honor of Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Edited by MARGARET CASE AND N. GERALD BARRIER MANOHAR AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES New Delhi 1986 ISBN 81 -85054 -07-X ISBN 81 -85054-07-X © American Institute of Indian Studies 1986 First Published 1986 Published by Ramesh Jain, Manohar Publications, 1 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi -110002 for American Institute of Indian Studies, D-176 Defence Colony, New Delhi -110024. Phototypeset by The Word, 807/95 Nehru Place, New Delhi -110019 and printed at P.L. Printers, C3/19 Rana Pratap Bagh, Delhi -110007. CONTENTS Preface vii The Prince Who Married His Own Left Half A.K. Ramanujan, University of Chicago 1 Horses and Snakes in the Adi Parvan of the Mahabharata Wendy O'Flaherty, University of Chicago 16 Echoes of Love and Creation in the Poetry of Sur Das John Stratton Hawley, University of Washington 45 On Stone and Artistic Production Frederick Asher, University of Minnesota 63 Keshub and Chaitanya- Brahmo Evangelism and the Indigenous Modernization of Vaishnavism in Bengal David Kopf University of Minnesota 69 Indian Renaissance beyond Bengal: The Awakening in Maharashtra Frank F. Conlon, University of Washington 80 From Patronage to Partisanship: The Beginnings of the Women’s Movement in India Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York College at Oswego 98 Punjab Politics and the Press, 1880-1910 N. Gerald Barrier, University of Missouri 118 The Diplomacy of Dependency: Content and Style in Nineteenth- Century Foreign Relations in India Ainslie T. Embree, Columbia University 134 A Conversation of Cultures: The United States and Southern Asia Milton Singer, University of Chicago 153 Envoi Wendy O’Flaherty, University of Chicago 172 I