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Jain Sites of Tamil Nadu [DVD-ROM]
| Author | Nalini Balbir, Karine Ladrech, N. Murugesan, K. Rameshkumar |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2018 |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 12 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-223-1 |
| Price | 300.00 INR (14.00 EUR) |
Gôpalla Grâmam ou le village de Gôpallam (édition bilingue tamoul-français / Tamil-French bilingual edition)
| Author | Récit traduit du tamoul et présenté par Elisabeth Sethupathy |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 267 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 10 |
| Language | Tamil, French |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-217-0 |
| Price | 650.00 INR (28.00 EUR) |
Exploring Urban Economic Resilience : The Case of A Leather Industrial Cluster in Tamil Nadu
| Author | Kamala Marius, G. Venkatasubramanian |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Centre de Sciences Humaines |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 29 p. |
| Series | USR 3330 "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" Working papers series n°9. SUBURBIN Papers Series n°3 |
| Language | English |
The Study of Stolen Love. Iṟaiyaṉār Kaḷaviyal. [rev. ed]
| Author | With Commentary by Nakkīraṉār. Translated from Tamil by David C. Buck and K. Paramasivam |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | xxxv, 347 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 9 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-216-3 |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |
Avacchedakatāniruktiḥ. The Avacchedakatānirukti (of the Dīdhiti and Gādādharī) with the Subodhā commentary by N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
| Author | Associate Editor S. Lakshminarasimham |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | vi, 290 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 8 / Vyākhyānamālā no 2. SCSVMV University Publication Series n˚ 38 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-210-1 (IFP) |
| Price | 650.00 INR (28.00 EUR) |
The Archaeology of Bhakti II. Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti
| Author | edited by Emmanuel Francis & Charlotte Schmid |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | ix, 609 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 132 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-212-5 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-221-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1300.00 INR (56.00 EUR) |
Tantric Studies. Fruits of a Franco-German project on Early Tantra
| Author | Edited by Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | xxx, 305 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 131; Early Tantra Series n˚ 4 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-211-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-220-2 (EFEO). |
| Price | 800.00 INR (35.00 EUR) |
Shadows of Gods: An Archive and its Images
| Author | Gopinath Sricandane |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 84 p. |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-215-6 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-223-3 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (38.00 EUR) |
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) |
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) |
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata. Volume II. The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45
| Author | A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Csaba Kiss |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 373 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 130; Early Tantra Series n˚ 3 |
| Language | Sanskrit (in Roman transliteration), English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-207-1 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-153-3 (EFEO) |
| Price | 750.00 INR (32.00 EUR) |
The Niśvāsatattvasaṃ̣hitā. The Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra. Volume 1. A Critical Edition & Annotated Translation of the Mūlasūtra, Uttarasūtra & Nayasūtra
| Author | Edited by Dominic Goodall in collaboration with Alexis Sanderson & Harunaga Isaacson with contributions of Nirajan Kafle, Diwakar Acharya & others |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 662 p |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 128; Early Tantra Series n˚ 1 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-205-7 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-151-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1800.00 INR (57.00 EUR) |
Bhāṭṭatantrarahasyam. The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya of Khaṇḍadeva with the Sāraprakāśikā commentary by N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
| Author | N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya; associate editor S. Lakshminarasimham |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | xxi, 664 p. |
| Series | Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 4 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-204-0 |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (52.00 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 |
Selected Readings on Small Town Dynamics in India
| Author | Bhuvaneswari Raman, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Rémi de Bercegol, Eric Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Centre de Sciences Humaines |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 114 p. |
| Series | USR 3330 "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" Working papers series n°7. SUBURBIN Papers Series n°2 |
| Language | English |
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) |
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 |
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) |
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. incl. b&w figs and 36 pages of b&w plates |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 126 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-201-9 |
| Price | 700.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |