Pondicherry

The Pondicherry Centre, India

Head : Dominic Goodall
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
16-19 rue Dumas
605 001 Pondicherry, India
Tel.: + 91 413 233 45 39
Fax: + 91 413 233 08 86
administration@efeo-pondicherry.org
goodalldominic@gmail.com

Newsletter: Pattrika

In 1955 Jean Filliozat, the eminent Indianist who would later serve as the Director of the EFEO for twenty years, with the encouragement of the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, set up the French Institute in Pondicherry. The IFP is dedicated to the broad study of the Indian world. For a long time EFEO members directed the Indology program of IFP, (philology, history of art and architecture, etc.). This partnership has continued since the EFEO established its Centre in a separate building in 1964. In this new setting the EFEO has housed its own collections and has provided facilities for Indian scholars.

Today the Centre provides a setting for the Library of Indology (about 11 000 titles), and houses a collection of maps and drawings, as well as manuscript texts on palm leaves in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Manipravalam. In 2005, "The Shivaite Manuscripts of Pondicherry"(EFEO-IFP) were entered in the UNESCO "World Memory" register at the joint request of EFEO, IFP and the National Mission for Manuscripts of the Indian Government.

The EFEO's permanent team comprises European and Indian scholars and technicians. Their work is regularly enhanced by contributions from visiting specialists and doctoral students. Research results of the EFEO Centre are published in form of monographs and include critical editions of texts in Sanskrit and Tamil, as well as translations of essential texts. Publications also include in-depth studies in literature, archaeology, epigraphy and history -- classic and contemporary, in addition to anthropology. Many of these works are published in the prestigious Collection Indologie jointly edited by EFEO and IFP. Today this represents a collection of more than 100 titles. The works of the EFEO researchers are also published in international and Indian journals.

The core research areas pursued at IFP follow:

The Pondicherry centre
Head: Dominic Goodall

École française d'Extrême-Orient
16-19 rue Dumas
605 001 Pondicherry, India

Tel: +91 413 233 45 39
Fax: +91 413 233 08 86
goodalldominic@gmail.com
administration@efeo-pondicherry.org

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Colloquium in Memory of Pandit Varada Desikan
23 JUNE 23 A  hybrid mini-conference is planned to mark the birth centenary of Pandit Varada Desikan on 23rd June 2023 from 15 h 00 to 17 h 30. Those who wish to attend in person, may meet in  ... Read more
05 APRIL 23 Olivia Gabriel, studying for her Master2 in Tamil at INALCO, and recipient of a scholarship of the INALCO foundation, has come to the Centre to pursue her studies on the  ... Read more
Yogacintāmaṇi Workshop
17 MARCH 23 From 13th to 17th March, a hybrid reading workshop was held devoted to studying parts of a forthcoming edition of Śivānandasarasvatī’s Yogacintāmaṇi, a lengthy  ... Read more
EFEO News
Lecture by Leslie Or on royal eulogies
France, Paris, 29 May 2012
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Leslie Orr is talking on : "Constructing histories: Dynastic representations in royal eulogies" . READ MORE
Colloquia, workshops, etc.
France, Paris, 29 May 2012
Défilé royal [Royal Procession], a joint EPHE-CEIAS-EFEO workshop has been organized by Charlotte Schmid, on Tuesday, May 29, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. READ MORE
Series of lectures on
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Leslie Orr (Concordia University, Montréal) has been invited by Charlotte Schmid (EFEO-EPHE) and Gerdi Gerschheimer (EPHE) for a series of lectures on the topic Historiography of Archaeology /Archaeology of Historiography: Reading and Writing the Temple Inscriptions of Medieval Tamilnadu READ MORE
Poison-Spells and Protection in tantric literature from Kerala
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Lecture by S.A.S. SARMA on: "Some remarks on Poison-Spells (viṣavidyā) and Protection in tantric literature from Kerala" READ MORE
Cankam Workshop
India, Pondicherry, 29 August 2011
The Cankam workshop is organized by Eva Wilden from August 29th to September 2nd in Pondicherry. READ MORE