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Companion Volume to the Cenavaraiyam on Tamil Morphology and Syntax. Le commentaire de Cenavaraiyar sur le Collatikaram du Tolkappiyam vol. 2 : English Introduction, glossaire analytique, appendices.
Jean-Luc Chevillard. Collection Indologie n° 84.2, IFP / EFEO, 2008, 526 p.
Language: English, French. Rs 900 ( 32 €)
Keywords: Tamil, Tolkappiyam, Cenavaraiyar, metagrammatical
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Streams of Language : Dialects in Tamil.
Edited by Kannan M., Hors série n° 6, IFP, 2008, xxii, 335 p.
Language: Tamil, English, French. 500 Rs (18 €)
Keywords : Dialects, Tamil, literature, linguistics
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Sabdabodhamimamsa. An inquiry into Indian theories of verbal cognition. Part III: Subantapadarthavicaratmakah. Nominal stems and their significance.
N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya with the collaboration of F. Grimal and S. Lakshminarasimham, Collection Indologie no 100.3 ; Samskrtavarsasmrtigranthamala no 8, IFP / Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 2007, xi, 51, 456 p.
Language : Sanskrit. 250 Rs. (Distributed by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi)
Keywords : Indian philosophy, sastra-s, verbal cognition
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Darasuram : architecture and iconography. [CD-ROM]
Edited by Karine Ladrech, IFP/EFEO, Collection Indologie nº 108, 2007.
Language: English. 350 Rs (13 €)
Keywords : Darasuram, architecture, iconography, Cola
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The “Historical Atlas of South India” project was officially completed through a seminar that was held at the IFP on April 4 to 6, 2008. Several Indian historians of international repute were among the 50 participants to this seminar.
Four South Indian universities (*) were associated to the (...)
The IFP is partner to an ARCUS (Action in Region for Scientific and University Cooperation) project of the Ile-de-France region in France (project “Ile-de-France / India Collaboration in research and training”).
The IFP will be associated to the University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, in two (...)
The University of Madras, the University of Bonn and the French Institute of Pondicherry jointly organized at the IFP on March 15, 2008, a seminar on health and health vulnerability in the city of Chennai.
This seminar had as an objective to examine the health vulnerability factors incurred by (...)
The Indology Department of the French Institute of Pondicherry and the United States Education Foundation in India (USEFI) jointly organized at the IFP on March 14, 2008, an international seminar on literary translation in South India.
Authors and translators took stock, in the presence of (...)
The French Institute of Pondicherry and the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS), Paris, associated themselves to organise from March 7 to 9, an international symposium on the theme of faults and flaws in therapeutic practices in South Asia. The transversal programme (...)