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The French Institute of Pondicherry publishes scientific books, articles, maps and CDs in the fields of Indology, Ecology and Social Sciences.
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The Four Hundred Songs of Love. An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil. The Akanāṉūṟu.
| Author | Translated and annotated by George L. Hart |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | xx, 485 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 7 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-213-2 |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part I.
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry & Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | xl, 592 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 6 ; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastragrantha series n˚ 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-208-8 |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 EUR) |
Śaiva Rites of Expiation. A First Edition and Translation of Trilocanaśiva’s Twelfth-Century Prāyaścittasamuccaya (With a Transcription of Hṛdayaśiva’s Prāyaścittasamuccaya)
| Author | Critically edited & translated by R. Sathyanarayanan with an introduction by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 651 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 127 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-203-3 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-218-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 EUR) |
Early Tantric Vaiṣṇavism: Three Newly Discovered Works of the Pañcarātra. The Svāyambhuvapañcarātra, Devāmṛtapañcarātra and Aṣṭādaśavidhāna
| Author | Critically edited from their 11th- and 12th-century Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes by Diwakar Acharya |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | lxxxvi, 229 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 129; Early Tantra Series n˚ 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-206-4 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-152-6 (EFEO). |
| Price | 700.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |
Water Governance and Climate Change Issues in Chennai
| Author | Samuel Roumeau, Aicha Seifelislam, Shazade Jameson, Loraine Kennedy |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry & Centre de Sciences Humaines |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 30 p. |
| Series | USR 3330 "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" Working papers series n°8 |
| Language | English |
The Parākhyatantra. A Scripture of the Śaiva Siddhānta.
| Author | A critical edition and annotated translation by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | cxxvi, 669 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie nº98 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-118-0 |
Old Mahé (1721-1817) According to Eighteenth Century French Plans.
| Author | Jean Deloche |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 39 p. |
| Language | English |
| Price | 300.00 INR (14.00 EUR) |
La Bhakti d’une reine : Śiva à Tiruccen̠n̠ampūṇṭi
| Author | Charlotte Schmid |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | ix, 405 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°123 |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-198-2 |
| Price | 1100.00 INR (48.00 EUR) |
Vâdivâçal : des taureaux et des hommes en pays tamoul
| Author | Récit traduit du tamoul et présenté par François Gros |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | viii, 113 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 3 |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-202-6 |
| Price | 450.00 INR (21.00 EUR) |
Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti: Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones. Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Honour of Paṇḍ̣it R. Varadadesikan
| Author | Edited by Valérie Gillet |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 381 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°124 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-199-9 |
| Price | 1100.00 INR (48.00 EUR) |
Contribution to the History of the Wheeled Vehicle in India.
| Author | Jean Deloche |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | xiii, 145 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 126 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-201-9 |
| Price | 700.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |
The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth.
| Author | Edited by Emmanuel Francis & Charlotte Schmid |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | xiii, 366 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°125 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-200-2 |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |
An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation : Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti, a commentary on Sadyojyotiḥ's refutation of twenty conceptions of the liberated state (mokṣa).
| Author | For the first time critically edited, translated into English and annotated by Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 508 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°122 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-195-1 |
| Price | 900.00 INR (38.00 EUR) |
Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India.
| Author | Edited by Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | x, 466 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°121 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-194-4 |
| Price | 900.00 INR (38.00 EUR) |
Measuring Urbanization around a Regional Capital: The Case of Bhopal District
| Author | Anima Gupta |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Centre de Sciences Humaines |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 76 p. |
| Series | USR 3330 "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" Working papers series n°6. SUBURBIN Papers Series n°1 |
| Language | English |
Le vagabond et son ombre : G. Nagarajan : romans et récits tamouls.
| Author | Présentés et traduits par François Gros avec le concours d’Élisabeth Séthupathy ; English Introduction by Kannan M. |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 267 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives no 2 |
| Language | French, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-197-5 |
| Price | 650.00 INR (28.00 EUR) |
Ancient Fortifications of the Tamil Country as Recorded in Eighteenth-Century French Plans.
| Author | Jean Deloche |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | viii, 139 p. incl. ill. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°120 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-193-7 |
| Price | 700.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |
Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita on the Gajasūtra
| Author | S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, François Grimal with the collaboration of Luther Obrock |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | iii, 136 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n°1. Vyākhyānamālā n°1 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-196-8 |
| Price | 450.00 INR (21.00 EUR) |
Bibliotheca Malabarica: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg’s Tamil Library
| Author | An annotated edition and translation by Will Sweetman with R. Ilakkuvan |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 153 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°119 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-192-0 |
| Price | 350.00 INR (17.00 EUR) |
The Traditional Kerala Manor: Architecture of a South Indian Catuhśāla House.
| Author | Henri Schildt |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | xiv, 473 p., including 176 p. of b&w plates |
| Series | Collection Indologie n°117 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-189-0 |
| Price | 1400.00 INR (60.00 EUR) |