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Pattrika N°44 ISSN 0972-2866-PATTRIKA-NEWSLETTER INSTITUT FRANÇAIS ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE CENTRE DE C S H I fP UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE UMIFRE 20 BULLETIN OF THE FRENCH RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN INDIA CNRS-MAEE July 2015, No. 44 DE PONDICHÉRY D’EXTRÊME ORIENT SCIENCES HUMAINES EDITORIAL in terms of intersectionnality enables the study of the construction of heterogeneous identities, shaped by The French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), the multiple social relationships. largest of the research institutes dependent on the For more information: http://f.hypotheses.org/ French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International wp-content/blogs.dir/729/files/2015/01/AJEI-2015- Development, founded in 1955 subsequent to the “de Programme-provisoire.pdf facto transfer agreement” of the French establishments in India, will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in Book launch and discussion on “The Globalization of 2015. The celebrations will take place on 18 and 19 Inequality” November 2015. A series of roundtables are planned to mark the first day of the celebrations with eminent On Thursday 23 April 2015, Prof. François Bourguignon experts engaging in discussions relating to all three presented his latest book entitled “The Globalization of fields of research at the Institute, namely Indology, Inequality”. In The Globalisation of Inequality, distinguished Ecology and Social Sciences. An open day on the economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines second day will allow the general public to discover its the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world unique collections and to interact with the researchers. economy that has raised the living standard of over half a This anniversary will bear witness to 60 years of high billion people in merging nations such as China, India, and level scientific cooperation between France and India. Brazil, and the exponentially increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalisation’s role in the evolution Contact: Dr. Pierre GRARD of inequality, Bourguignon takes an original and truly [email protected] international approach to the decrease in inequality between nations, the increase in inequality within nations, and the policies that might moderate inequality’s negative effects. FOCUS The book launch was followed by a discussion with Prof. Leïla Choukroune, Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka, Dr. Bruno CSH Dorin and Prof. Himanshu. Further details are available here: http://csh-delhi. AJEI Young Researchers’ 17th Workshop on “Gender: com/eventdetail/59/book-launch-the-globalization-of- Politics, Labour, Law, Development” inequality-by-prof-francois-bourguignon The Association des Jeunes Études Indiennes (AJEI) together with the CSH and the French Institute in India (IFI) and in collaboration with Banaras Hindu University (BHU) organized the 17th Young Researchers’ Workshop entitled “Gender: Politics, Labour, Law, Development” in Varanasi from 9-12 March, 2015. Designed as a platform for young researchers, specialized as well as non-specialized in gender issues, the workshop aimed at presenting how gender issues can shed a complementary light on their object of research and/or to illustrate what contribution their own work can bring to current gender topics. Detailed accounts of social reality i.e. able to render its diversity and its complexity and privileging intersectionality were favored. Instead of Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka and Prof. François Bourguignon during the fragmenting the analysis of society, approaching gender book presentation at CSH 1 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India EFEO Tantric scriptures form the basis of in a workshop only, since we plan to almost all the various theistic schools spend most of our time in the field. THE NEW “EARLY TANTRA SERIES” of theology and ritual in post-Vedic The next workshop-cum-conference India, as well as of a major strand of will take place in 2017. Three books have just appeared that Buddhism (Vajrayāna). Among these launch a new mini-series within the schools, those centred on the Hindu This year’s theme is “The Bhakti of Collection Indologie called the Early deities Śiva and Viṣṇu spread well Minor Dynasties”. In our working Tantra Series. The mini-series has beyond the Indian subcontinent to definition, this refers to all sorts of been created, in collaboration with the Kambuja (Cambodia/Laos/Thailand), smaller dynasties that never rose to an Sanskrit department of the University of Champa (Vietnam) and Indonesia, “imperial” status, but mainly remained Hamburg, to release some of the fruits of while Buddhist tantrism quickly subordinated to more powerful kings. a Franco-German project funded from became pan-Asian. In the pre-medieval and medieval Tamil 2008 to 2011 by the French and German country, such were the Muttaraiyars, research-funding agencies (Agence One Nepalese treasure, also included, in the Irukkuvēḷs, the Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyars Nationale pour la Recherche and the 2013, in UNESCO’s register, formed the or the Bāṇas, who for most of their Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). corner-stone of our project: the ninth- history acknowledged the authority of The series takes its name from that century manuscript of the Niśvāsa-tattva- the Pallavas, the Cōḻas or the Pāṇḍyas. project’s title: “Early Tantra: Discovering saṃhitā. The first volume of our new series Our objective is to work on theoretical the interrelationships and common is devoted to that extraordinarily rich text, issues, such as the definition of “Minor ritual syntax of the Shaiva, Buddhist, the other two to hitherto unpublished Dynasties”, by exploring in situ the Vaishnava and Saura traditions”. Our Vaishnava works that appear to be among architectural, iconographical and aim was to study the interrelationships the oldest sources of the Pañcarātra, and epigraphical remains that are associated between the tantric traditions on the to the Brahmayāmala, an early work with minor dynasties of Tamil Nadu and basis of fundamental source-material, of antinomian religion that has had a by comparing these with the corpora which we would edit and publish surprisingly broad influence, not only on of the major dynasties. We will visit for the first time. For this we made Śaivism, but also on tantric Buddhism. the sites of Taccūr, Lāḷkuṭi, Kiraṉūr, use of some of the exceptionally rich Maliayaṭipaṭṭi, Kaliyapaṭṭi, Vicalūr, manuscript resources gathered in the The Early Tantra Series is not a closed Tiruppūr, Kaṇṇaṉūr, Tirukkaṭṭalai, twentieth century and studied by collection: as well as the editions and Panaṅkuṭi, Tirumeyyam, Narttamalai, German and French research institutes translations promised as part of the Malaikōyil, Putukkōṭṭai, Gokarneśvara, at opposite poles of the sub-continent. “Early Tantra” project, studies of Koṭumpāḷūr, Vīralūr, Kiḻaiyūr/ For the project has of course benefitted numerous related works were inspired Meḻappaḻuvūr, Gaṅgaikoṇṭacōḻapuram. from access to the largest specialised or further advanced during the The following participants are manuscript collection of texts relating project’s workshops. confirmed: Padma Kaimal (Colgate to the Shaiva-siddhanta amassed in Contact: Dr. Dominic GOODALL University), Vidya Dehejia (Columbia the IFP and recognised in 2005 by [email protected] University), Dominic Goodall (EFEO UNESCO as a “Memory of the World” Pondicherry), John Guy (Metropolitan collection. The Archaelogy of Bhakti III – The Museum of Art, NY), Richard Mann Bhakti of Minor Dynasties (Carleton University), Caleb Simmons At the other end of the subcontinent, (University of Arizona), Richard the cool climate of Nepal has Davis (Bard College), Elizabeth Cecil preserved ancient manuscripts of texts The third workshop in the series The (Brown University), Emma Stein (Yale of virtually every branch of Indian Archeaology of Bhakti, organised by University), Nicolas Cane (EPHE), learning. Much of the early history Emmanuel Francis (CNRS/CEIAS), Eventhia Moreau, Nicolas Dejenne of tantrism is thus preserved in the Charlotte Schmid (EFEO Paris) and (Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Maishy vast archive of Nepalese manuscripts Valérie Gillet (EFEO Pondicherry), Charan (Delhi University), Innamburan microfilmed over more than three will take place at the Centre of the Raja (retired), Divya Kumar-Dumas decades by the Nepal-German EFEO in Pondicherry from 3 to (Pennsylvania University), Shubha Manuscript Preservation Project 14 August 2015. We are glad to Shanthamurthy (Oxford University), (NGMPP), then partly catalogued announce that Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto Anil Kumar (ASI Chennai). by the Nepalese German Manuscript University) and Leslie Orr (Concordia Cataloguing Project (NGMCP), University) have graciously accepted Contact: Emmanuel Francis run from Hamburg and from the to be our guests of honour for this ([email protected]), Valérie Gillet NGMCP’s base in Kathmandu, the year’s scholarly gathering, which, ([email protected]), Charlotte Nepal Research Centre (NRC). unlike the previous two, will consist Schmid ([email protected]) 2 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India The 13th Classical Tamil Summer techniques and different sorts of IFP Seminar light have to be employed in order deal with various kinds of problems Prof. Gilles Boeuf, invitee of the In 2015, the CTSS will take place such as vanished ink, water or insect IFP in the framework of the Cycle from 10-28 August, shortened, in damage or simply the wearing out of Conferences of the Collège de other words, to three weeks instead of of the fragile old palm-leaves. 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