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Suzanne Siauve |
Astadasabhedanirnaya. Explication des dix-huit différences (entre les deux branches de l'Ecole de Ramanuja) de Sri Vatsya Ranganatha |
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| A controversy of a theological nature on the divergences between the two major schools of Vaisnavism in the South continues even to this day. The debate between the school of the ‘North’ or vad?agalai, founded on the Sanskrit tradition, and that of the South, or ten?galai, which is partial to Tamil tradition, concerns the relations between divine grace and human endeavor and the nature of surren-der to this grace on the part of the devotee. The Astadasabhedanirnaya is one of the texts relating... |
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Jackie Assayag |
Au confluent de deux rivières. Musulmans et hindous dans le sud de l'Inde |
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| Analysis of the relations between Islam and Hinduism, only too frequently reduced to stereotypes, is not always accompanied by a thorough consideration of the complexity of the mutual relations of attraction and repulsion which "the people of the Book" and various Hindu castes have maintained for more than a thousand years. Their relations are explored in the village and in the urban milieu, among saints-cum-healers or during ceremonies of fakirs, across hybrid cults or within the individual... |
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Charlotte Vaudeville |
Barahmasa - Les chansons des douze mois dans les littératures indo-aryennes |
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| The poetic genre known as the barahmasa, or ‘twelve months’, devotes a stanza to each of the months of the year. Found in the vernacular literatures of the north of India, it proved immensely popular amongst the rural communities and continues to be orally transmitted through village songs. This study is based on the oldest of the barahmasa-s, which appear mainly in three languages: ancient Marwari-Gujarati, Avadhi and old Bengali. It presents samples of the barahmasa in several dialects (13th... |
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Chants dévotionnels tamouls de Karaikkalammaiyar |
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| This earliest expression of saiva devotion in Tamil by the poetess from Karaikkal is published with an outstanding translation by Karavelane (Leon Saint-Jean, a lawyer and freedom fighter from Karaikkal, where he inaugurated in 1937 a French Institute of Indianism). It remains a landmark, and the preface (1956), by Jean Filliozat, a valid charter for French Indology. The new edition has been considerably enriched, by a complete glossary/concordance of the poems, a full translation by Vinson... |
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Marguerite E. Adicéam |
Contribution à l'étude d'Aiyanar-Sasta |
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| Aiyan?r-??st?, a village deity or popular deity of South India, has many temples attributed to him in this region. One of his principal duties is to protect the land. Literary sources often describe him as a son of ?iva. The present publication, using all documentation pertaining to the deity assembled by the French Institute of Pondicherry (Sanskrit and Tamil texts both edited and in manuscript form as well as illustrations), successively studies the various names of the deity, his origins,... |
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Mireille Lobligeois, Pondicherry |
De la Réunion à l'Inde française. Philippe- Achille Bédier (1791-1865), une carrière coloniale |
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| This solid and comprehensive study traces the career of an administrative officer in India and in the Reunion Islands towards the end of the Napoleonic wars. It details life in these various outposts of the Indian Ocean from precolonial renaissance period to the end of the 19th century. It describes the multiple crises faced by Bédier – economic crisis, freedom movement of the Blacks, tensions between communities that had embraced reform, massive exodus of Indian labourers and the ensuing... |
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Djallal G. Heuzé |
Des Intouchables aux Dalit : les errements d’un mouvement d’émancipation dans l’Inde contemporaine |
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| In India, the term Dalit is claimed by those who were earlier called untouchables. They have created a movement of emancipation that reveals worrying tensions on its margins. The campaign of a journal that, in 1981, took on the title of Dalit Voice, bears testimony to this fact. Agitating against the caste system and for statutory equality, this journal, which is influential among the small elite originating from the lower castes, constitutes a remarkable example of the drift in the discourse... |
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Diptagama - Volume I |
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| Diptagama is one of the 28 canonical treatises pertaining to the Southern saivite school known as saivasiddhanta. It deems itself a treatise on installations. The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry. The present edition will comprise 3 volumes. The first volume released in 2004 deals with mantras, installation of the main Lin?ga in the temple, and even more with architecture and iconography. The... |
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Diptagama - Volume II |
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| Diptagama is one of the 28 canonical treatises pertaining to the Southern saivite school known as saivasiddhanta. It deems itself a treatise on installations. The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry. The present edition will comprise 3 volumes. The first volume released in 2004 deals with mantras, installation of the main Lin?ga in the temple, and even more with architecture and iconography. The... |
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Bruno Dagens |
Entre Alampur et Srisailam. Recherches archéologiques en Andhra Pradesh - 2 Volumes |
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| This book was written just before the construction of the srisailam Dam in Andhra Pradesh. It intends to give a detailed inventory of the many temples (more than 400) which the srisailam Project was to cause to be transplanted or destroyed and which cover the history of the region from the 7th c. onward. The detailed description of the temples is given together with a huge documentation made up of more than 900 photos and numerous drawings. History, architectural typology and iconography of the... |
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Sayida Surriya Hussain |
Garcin de Tassy. Biographie et étude critique de ses oeuvres |
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| The School of Living Oriental languages was founded in Paris in 1795. Garcin de Tassy held the chair of Hindustani there, which was created in 1828. Many important works are attributed to this great scholar, who was equally well-versed in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was interested primarily in the Muslim religion and the Urdu language. The present volume first gives a historical introduction to Indian studies in Europe in the 18th-19th centuries A.D. It then traces the career of this... |
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Claude Jacques |
Gaya Mahatmya |
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| The Gay? M?h?tmya belongs to the literary genre of the m?h?tmya, popular texts extolling the virtues of the many religious sites in India. Composed in Sanskrit, it praises Gay?, one of the famous centres of holy pilgrimage and amongst the oldest cited in the religious history of India. There exist several texts with the same name; the present publication, accompanied by a translation in French, presents the Gay? M?h?tmya of the V?yu-pur?n?a. The introduction describes Gay? and its pilgrimage... |
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François Grimal |
Hariharaviracita Malatimadhavatika. Le commentaire de Harihara sur le Malatimadhava de Bhavabhuti |
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| The present work is a first annotated edition of the oldest known commentary (end of 12th or early 13th cent. A.D.) of the M?lat?m?dhava of Bhavabh?ti (first half of 8th cent. A.D.). The t??k? is given here with the text of the play as edited by R.G. Bhandarkar. A first appendix gives the list of variants noted between the text of the M?lat?m?dhava edited by R.G. Bhandarkar and the text as it appears through the commentary of Harihara. A second appendix provides the list of variants of the play... |
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Denis Matringe |
Hir varis sah. Poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle |
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| The bulk of the book consists in the thoroughly annotated French translation of the first 110 stanzas of Varis sah’s poem Hir, completed in 1767. The introduction (pp. 5-72) is about the conditions of literary creation in 18th century Panjab, the author, the legend of Hir and Ranjha which is the basis of the poem, the genre of the qissa (an epico-lyric narrative in rhymed stanzas), the poetics and the literary language of the work (characterized by its archaisms, its dialectal mixity, its low... |
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Historique et statistique de Karikal. Texte rédigé en 1825 par le Capitaine de Vaisseau Cordier |
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| These two volumes collect the different surveys made by J. Cordier in 1825. Volume 1 is composed of two parts. The first contains the historical account, including various reports of local administrators; the second is a statistical account composed of the physical description of the territory, census of population and the inventory of its resources (agriculture, industry, trade, etc). Volume 2 is devoted to various annexes dealing with specific surveys, such as notes on the 5 maganoms, notes... |
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Samuel Berthet |
Inde-France (1870-1962): enjeux culturels |
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| In the early nineteenth century, the elites of the sub-continent ruled by the British started to conceive French culture as an instrumental factor in modernity-making. From 1870 onwards, the attempts of the British authorities to contain their emancipation increased the interest of the Indian elites in the French language and culture. If this effort towards emancipation from British rule took the Indian elite closer to the country of the Revolution and of the lingua franca of the cosmopolitan... |
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Purushottam Joshi |
Industrialisation et société dans l'Inde du Nord |
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| This publication studies the factors of resistance to industrialization in North Indian society, which is that of a culture in transition from the traditional and preindustrial to the industrial system. Following an introduction outlining the problems addressed, it speaks of the traditional social structure as an impediment to a better quality of life. It then analyzes the factors of resistance or the causes of delay, ascribing these to the survival of the caste system. It examines the existing... |
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Jean-Claude Bonnan |
Jugements du tribunal de la Chaudrie de Pondichéry 1766-1817 |
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| The Choultry of Pondicherry, an Indian court ruled subsequently by the French, existed from the 17th century until 1827. It dealt with personal law, trade, civil and criminal proceedings, immovable property, criminal law and public regulations. Its manner of settling disputes exemplifies both an ancient tradition of jurisprudence and also the contacts between Indian law and European law. Drawing on manuscript material, this book reproduces the most interesting judgements passed during the... |
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F. Gros et Kannan M. |
L’arbre nagalinga. Nouvelles d’Inde du Sud |
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| It is through the genre of short stories that contemporary Tamil attained world standards and entered modernity. This collection is not just an anthology. Coedited by the French Institute within its programme on Contemporary Tamilnadu, it offers texts very contrasted in style, written from 1935 to 1995. It is completed by a postface which chronicles critically different voices, from popular writers to literary establishment, and also reveals original authors, several of them not yet published... |
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Alix Raison |
La Haritasamhita - Texte médical sanskrit |
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| The Haritasamhita is attributed to Harita, one of the disciples of the sage atreya Punarvasu. It is also known by the names of Atrisamhita and atreyasamhita. The text known to us, differs from the one cited in the ancient period by the commentators of the major ayurvedic texts. It has survived in the form of a large number of manuscripts and has been edited several times, proof of the interest that it has generated. This text, known from Gujarat to Bengal, is presented here with a translation... |
