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Local knowledge, sometimes perceived as a resource to preserve and protect, is the object of national and international commercial interests. This conference explores the processes of commodification and circulation of local knowledge, by confronting different levels of analysis proposed by (...)

Prof. Velayoudom MARIMOUTOU took up his post as Director of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) on September 16, 2008. He succeeds Dr. Jean-Pierre Muller who headed the Institute during the last five years. Mr. Velayoudom MARIMOUTOU, Ph.D in Economics, was previously Deputy Scientific (...)

The French Institute of Pondichery (IFP) held a reception on Thursday August 21, 2008, on the occasion of the departure of its director, Dr Jean-Pierre Muller. The Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai, numerous personalities, partners and friends of the Institute and the staff (...)

The IFP officially posted a Digital Database online on its website, on August 12, 2008, in the presence of the Minister of Education of the Government of Pondicherry, of the Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai and of numerous invitees (researchers, academics, members of cultural (...)

The French Institute of Pondicherry (FIP) and the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in Delhi, are associated in a new project of the French National Agency for Research. Led by the by the Bureau for Geological and Mining Researches (BRGM), this project will allow a multidisciplinary and (...)

• Preparation of a project on the management of forest fires in India
• Conference on Medicine and Religion in South Asia
• Official completion of the “Historical Atlas of South India” project
• The IFP, partner of an ARCUS project, Ile-de-France Region
• Seminar on health vulnerability in Chennai
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