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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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Traités, temples et images du monde indien. Etudes d’histoire et d’archéologie.

Author Bruno Dagens. Articles rassemblés par Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret et Vincent Lefèvre
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle
Year 2005
Pages xiv, 330 p. incl. 42 p. of photos.
Language French, English
ISBN 978-81-8470-134-0
Price 400.00 INR (18.00 EUR)

Gender discriminations among young children in Asia.

Author Edited by Isabelle Attané & Jacques Véron
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Centre Français sur la Population et le Développement
Year 2005
Pages 314 p.
Series Collection Sciences Sociales n°9
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-135-7
Price 400.00 INR (20.00 EUR)

Mangroves v1.0. A multimedia identification system of mangroves species of South-East India and Sri Lanka [CD-ROM]

Author J. Prosperi … [et al.]
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / CIRAD
Year 2005
Series Collection Ecologie n°44
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-139-5
Price 300.00 INR (14.00 EUR)

Mār̠an̠akapporuḷum Tiruppatikkōvaiyum. The Mār̠an̠akapporuḷ and the Tiruppatikkōvai of Tirukkurukaipperumāḷ Kavirāyar. A treatise on Tamil poetics illustrated with a narrative poem.

Author Edited with elaborate notes in Tamil by T.V. Gopal Iyer
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Pages lxxxiii, 369 p.
Series Collection Indologie nº96
Language Tamil. (English introduction)
ISBN 978-81-8470-128-9
Price 600.00 INR (26.00 EUR)

Index des mots de l’oeuvre de Bhavabhūti

Author François Grimal
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Pages viii, 435 p.
Series Collection Indologie nº92
Language Sanskrit. (French introduction)
ISBN 978-81-8470-124-1
Price 600.00 INR (26.00 EUR)

The Pañcāvaraṇastava of Aghoraśivācārya. A twelfth-century South Indian prescription for the visualisation of Sadāśiva and his retinue.

Author Editors: Dominic Goodall, Nibedita Rout, R. Sathyanarayanan, S.A.S. Sarma, T. Ganesan, S. Sambandhaśivācārya
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Pages 237 p., [26] p. of ill.
Series Collection Indologie nº102
Language Sanskrit, English
ISBN 978-81-8470-133-3
Price 1100.00 INR (36.00 EUR)

Le vieux Pondichéry (1673-1824) revisité d’après les plans anciens.

Author Jean Deloche
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Pages viii, 160 p.
Series Collection Indologie n°99
Language French
ISBN 978-81-8470-129-6

Bhairava Sahasrapratimāvaliḥ. Iconographie de la forme terrible de Śiva en Inde du Sud / Iconography of the terrible form of Śiva in South India. [CD-ROM]

Author Edition by K. Ladrech , with the collaboration of N. Dejenne, K. Ramesh Kumar
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Series Collection Indologie n°95
Language French, English
ISBN 978-81-8470-127-2

Senji (Gingee). A fortified city in the Tamil country.

Author Jean Deloche
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2005
Pages 391 p., 334 plates, 44 figs & 1 folded map.
Series Collection Indologie n°101
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-132-6
Price 1500.00 INR (65.00 EUR)

Aids and maternity in India. From public health to social sciences perspectives. Emerging themes and debates.

Author Edited by Patrice Cohen & Suniti Solomon
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2004
Pages 279 p.
Series Publications du département des sciences sociales n°8
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-122-7
Price 400.00 INR (18.00 EUR)

Industrialisation and socio-cultural change in the Tannery belt of the Palar valley (Tamil nadu).

Author Edited by Loraine Kennedy
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2004
Pages 111 p.
Series Pondy Papers in Social Sciences n°32
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-121-0
Price 230.00 INR (10.00 EUR)

Mapping out social change In South India. A geographic information system and its applications.

Author Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Sébastien Oliveau, Virginie Chasles, Rémy Delage, and Stéphanie Vella
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2004
Pages 117 p.
Series Pondy Papers in Social Sciences n°31
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-120-3
Price 230.00 INR (10.00 EUR)

Talit Ilakkiyam: En̠atu An̠upavam. Dalit literature: my experience.

Author Edited by Kannan M.
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Viṭiyal Patippakkam, Coimbatore
Year 2004
Pages 200 p.
Series IFP - Publications Hors série n°4
Language Tamil
ISBN 978-81-8470-119-7

Origins of the urban development of Pondicherry according to seventeenth century Dutch plans.

Author Jean Deloche
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2004
Pages 57 p., ill.
Series IFP – Publications Hors série n°3
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-123-4
Price 300.00 INR (14.00 EUR)

The Yoga of the Mālinivijayottaratantra. Chapters 1–4, 7, I2–17.

Author Critical edition, translation and notes by Somadeva Vasudeva
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2004
Pages liv, 561 p.
Series Collection Indologie nº97
Language Sanskrit, English
ISBN 978-81-8470-117-3

South Indian horizons. Felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Author Edited by Jean-Luc Chevillard (editor) and Eva Wilden (associate editor) with the collaboration of A. Murugaiyan
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Year 2004
Pages xlv, 651 p.
Series Publications du département d’indologie n°94
Language French, English & Tamil
ISBN 978-81-8470-116-6
Price 1150.00 INR (49.00 EUR)

Water management in rural South India and Sri Lanka. Emerging themes and critical issues. Proceedings of the Indo-French Round Table at the French Institute of Pondicherry, 31 October 2001.

Author Edited by Patrice Cohen and S. Janakarajan
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2003
Pages 189 p.
Series Publications du département des sciences sociales nº7
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-112-8
Price 460.00 INR (22.00 EUR)

Microfinance: from daily survival to social change.

Author Edited by Isabelle Guérin & Jean-Michel Servet
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2003
Pages 153 p.
Series Pondy Papers in Social Sciences n°30
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-111-1
Price 280.00 INR (13.00 EUR)

The expression of religion in Tibetan medicine. Ideal conceptions, contemporary practices and political use.

Author Laurent Pordié
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2003
Pages 83 p.
Series Pondy Papers in Social Sciences n°29
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-110-4
Price 200.00 INR (9.00 EUR)

Late quaternary environment change: emerging issues. Proceedings of the International PAGES workshop and training program at the French Institute, Pondicherry, 10th–15th February 2003, and the common seminar at Anna University, Chennai, 8th February 2003.

Author Edited by Anupama K. & Hema Achyutan
Publisher Institut Français de Pondichéry
Year 2003
Pages 288 p.
Series Publications du département d’écologie n°42
Language English
ISBN 978-81-8470-113-5
Price 460.00 INR (22.00 EUR)