South Asian Core Collections
The South Asia collection at EFEO Central Library in Paris includes: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan.
This collection mainly focuses on classical research in religion, philosophy, religious history, art and religious iconography, archaeology, epigraphy, studies of source material, ancient history, and to a lesser extent, social sciences.
The collection expanded according to fields of research of EFEO researchers, such as Jean Filliozat, Suzanne Karpelès, François Gros, N.R. Bhatt, Françoise l'Hernault, etc.
Nowadays, it consists of approximately 21,000 documents in Western and Eastern languages (mainly in Sanskrit and Tamil), 133 titles of periodicals mainly in English language (including 22 current titles), more than one hundred manuscripts, a hundred maps, some rubbings and works of art (Tibetan figurines), and approximately 19,000 photographs (available for consultation at EFEO Paris photo library).
Since 2011, approximately 5,000 monographs and 50 titles of periodicals were deposited at BULAC (the following fields are in deposit according to documentary policy: literature and linguistics, Tamil studies, law, economics, sciences).
Collections of the Library of Pondicherry EFEO Center, which focus on Tamil and Sanskrit philology, archaeology, art history and epigraphy of South India, are also available in our online catalogs.
Contact: Maïté Hurel, head of the South Asian collection
Conditions and procedures for the EFEO
- Track 1: "History and social sciences: fields, texts and images" (EHESS-EFEO)
- Track 2: "History, philology and religions" (EPHE/PSL-EFEO)
Admission procedure
Wednesday, March 29, Michela Bussotti (EFEO/UMR CCJ) and Lia Wei (INALCO/IFRAE) are organizing a study day on "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception" [Stamping practice in China: materiality, transmission, reception] at the Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits [Stamping practice in China: images and inscribed objects], which is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco.
READ MOREThe exhibition "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine : images et objets inscrits" [Stamping in China: inscribed images and objects] revisits Chinese stamping, a technique for reproducing engraved texts and images, usually on stone, in ink on paper.
The exhibition, organized by Lia Wei (Inalco / IFRAE) and Michela Bussotti (EFEO / UMR CCJ), with the participation of Soline Suchet (BULAC) and Dat-Wei Lau (EFEO), brings together some forty prints from the EFEO archives and a dozen prints discovered at the BULAC - Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations as part of this project.
