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Presidential Address: Too Little and Too Much: Reflections on Muslims in the History of India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Barbara D. Metcalf
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I want to begin this evening by recalling my immediate predecessor as AAS president from the South Asian field, Barbara Stoler Miller, whose untimely death in 1992 took from us a distinguished Sanskritist, a gifted teacher, and a generous colleague whose absence we mourn. In my address I continue themes taken up by Barbara Miller four years ago (Miller 1991) as well as by Stanley Tambiah, as president from the Southeast Asian field, the year before (Tambiah 1990). Then, as now, scholars across the disciplines—whether, like Barbara Miller, a scholar of classical texts; or like Stanley Tambiah, an anthropologist; or myself, a historian of British India—have struggled to understand the religious nationalism of South Asia, one of whose most tragic outcomes has been an accelerating violence against the Muslim minority.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , November 1995 , pp. 951 - 967
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995

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