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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. The France in India the customary four so as not to overlap material processed came in part completely with the third workshop from the manuscript collection of Professor Gilles Bœuf, a specialist on the Archeology of Bhakti. The day the EFEO and in part from the in environmental physiology and will be split into two morning reading- ancient holdings of Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai biodiversity, President of the National sessions for the principal text and a mutt. The French Consulate kindly Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in choice of afternoon reading sessions assisted in the transport of the heavy Paris, France (since 2009), Professor at devoted to selected texts from different and sensitive lab equipment from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, genres of Tamil literature. The first Germany to India. For a couple of Paris and Invited Professor at the Collège and second weeks will be devoted to a important texts the readability of the de France on the Chair of Sustainable literary text from the oldest surviving poor remaining witnesses could be Development - Energy, Environment body of Tamil poetry, the Caṅkam significantly enhanced, such as for and Society, visited the IFP on March corpus, namely the Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai manuscript of the 6, 2015, on the occasion of his visit to rd th (261 lines). The work is one the ten Caṅkam anthology Paripāṭal and for a south India from 23 February to 9 long songs of the Pattuppāṭṭu and is part of Aṭiyārkkunallār’s commentary March in the framework of Cycle of currently being critically re-edited on the epic Cilappatikāram. A further Conferences of the Collège de France by T. Rajeswari, who will take over trip is planned for next year with the in India organized in collaboration the guidance of the reading sessions. purpose of working on manuscripts with the Scientific Department of The third week will concentrate on from some of the important Chennai the Embassy of France in India and one of the fundamental texts in the libraries and of studying the special the Centre for Social Sciences and Śaiva devotional corpus, namely the problems that concern paper Humanities (CSH) in New Delhi. th Tiruvācakam, of Māṇikkavācakar (9 manuscripts, such as lamination. c.), reputed to make the heart melt of The Cycle of Conferences of the everyone who has a heart. This will be Contact: Dr. Eva Wilden Collège de France in India aims at presented by Jean-Luc Chevillard. In [email protected] promoting the excellence of French the afternoon there will be various slots research and its teaching, and thereby, for Maṇimēkalai (G. Vijayavenugopal), to encourage the emergence of new Muttoḷḷāyiram. (Giovanni Ciotti), collaborations. This programme, Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram (Victor which is planned over a three-year D’Avella), Tolkāppiyam­ Poruḷatikāram, Meyppāṭṭiyal (Indra Manuel) and Vīracōḻiyam (K. Nachimuthu).

Contact: Dr. Eva Wilden [email protected] Mobile Manuscript Lab in Pondicherry

Within the framework of the NETamil project, the mobile manuscript lab from the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, visited the Pondicherry Centre during the third and fourth weeks of January 2015 in order to conduct experiments of multispectral imaging on palm-leaf manuscripts. The purpose was to restore and enhance legibility in cases of faded or damaged script. Different imaging

3 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India span, will see several professors of the Protocol. The conference objective funded by the British Economic Collège de France visit high ranking is to achieve a legally binding and and Social Research Council universities and research institutes universal agreement on climate, from (ESRC) and intends to foster inter- in India. Prof. Boeuf is the second all the nations of the world. disciplinary research on the evolutions professor to be welcomed in the and effects of free trade agreements framework of this cycle. In this framework, and as a preparatory (FTAs) in America, Europe and meeting for the Paris 2015 climate Asia. The GIFTA project is by nature The programme schedule in Pondicherry meeting, the French Institute of interdisciplinary and global. The of Prof. Boeuf started with a visit to Pondicherry participated in the 2015 inaugural GIFTA Workshop took place the IFP where he was presented the Delhi Sustainable Development at Keele University on 22-22 January th works conducted in the Ecology and Summit (DSDS), the 15 edition 2015. Please see: http://giftaproject. Social sciences Departments notably. of which was themed “Sustainable org/?page_id=89 Then followed two conferences by Prof. Development Goals and Dealing with Boeuf on the themes of biodiversity Climate Change”. The DSDS, an An Asia workshop will be held and climate change: the first one, in the international platform to facilitate the at the CSH in November 2015, afternoon of March 6 in front of the exchange of knowledge on all aspects please see: http://giftaproject. students of the Department of Ecology of sustainable development, has been org/index.php/workshops/. Prof. and Environmental Sciences of the organized by the Energy and Resources Sangeeta Khorana, CSH Senior Pondicherry University, and the second Institute (TERI) annually since 2001. Research Associate, is the Principal at the Alliance Française of Pondicherry Over the past fourteen years, the DSDS Coordinator of the GIFTA project in front of a very large audience. has emerged as one of the foremost fora while Prof. Leïla Choukroune is a on issues related to global sustainability. member of the international advisory Thanks to the fruitful exchanges with This flagship event of TERI brings board and in charge of the Asia related Prof. Boeuf, a number of important together various Heads of State and aspects of the work programme. research axes to be developed between Government, thought leaders, policy- the IFP, the MNHN, the CNRS and makers and the crème de la crème of For more information on the GIFTA the CIRAD were rapidly identified, industry and academia to deliberate project, please see: http://giftaproject. notably at the interface of human on myriad issues. Among the various org sciences and ecology. Prof. Boeuf also Heads of State and Government of proposed to promote the works of over 50 countries that participated in EFEO the IFP in the field of carbon storage the 15th edition, were HE Mr. Laurent to Mrs. Ségolène Royale and Mr. Research on Tamil Vaiṣṇava Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and manuscripts Fabius ahead of the United Nations International Development and Former Conference on Climate Change Prime Minister of France, as well as Suganya Anandakichenin, who has Conference (CoP 21). HE Ms. Ségolène Royal, Minister of just successfully defended her doctoral Contact: Dr. Pierre GRARD Ecology, Sustainable Development thesis about Kulacēkara Āḻvār at [email protected] and Energy, Government of France. Hamburg University, mainly works This Summit was of much relevance on the Tamil Vaiṣṇava manuscripts of The IFP participates in the Delhi to the ongoing works of the French the EFEO collection in Pondicherry. Sustainable Development Summit Institute of Pondicherry on climate On the one hand, she is cataloguing (DSDS) 2015 change studies. them so that in the near future, both a digital copy of the manuscripts as well Contact: Dr. Pierre GRARD The United Nations Climate Change as information about them and the [email protected] Conference, COP21 or CMP11 will different works they transmit can be be held in Paris, France in 2015. The freely accessed online by anyone who international climate conference will RESEARCH is interested. In the process, she is be held from 30 November to 11 also collecting information about the December 2015. This will be the 21st CSH transmission of the manuscripts. On yearly session of the Conference of the the other, she is collating sources for Parties (COP 21) to the 1992 United GIFTA some of the earlier layers of the corpus Nations Framework Convention on of Āḻvār poetry in order to determine Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the The “Government and Economic if it would be worthwhile to attempt 11th session of the Meeting of the Integration through Free Trade a critical edition of the whole corpus, Parties (CMP 11) to the 1997 Kyoto Agreements” (GIFTA) project is the Nālāyira Tivviya Pirapantam. She

4 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India is also translating various parts of this Earth System Sciences (SSEESS), the literature, along with the medieval Netherlands Organisation for Scientific commentaries upon it written in Research (NWO), the Economic and Maṇipravāḷa. Social Research Council (ESRC) UK through the Newton Fund and the Contact: Suganya Anandakichenin National Research Foundation of [email protected] South Africa. Towards a critical reconstruction Contact: Dr. Audrey Richard- of the Somaśambhupaddati i. ṭ Ferroudji The current focus of Nirajan Photo: Meeting with staff from the Department [email protected] of Agriculture– Sefrou – Feb, 25th 2015 Kafle’s research is the eleventh- Conservation, Documentation and century Śaiva ritual text called and pollution leading to more water Preservation of the Knowledge of the Somaśambhupaddhati. He scarcity and crisis. Water users and Siddha Medicine is particularly working with Dr. managers are encouraged to develop S.A.S. Sarma of the EFEO, who is strategies that also take climate change “Conservation, Documentation and producing a critical edition of this into account. The challenge is huge Preservation of the Knowledge of text along with its commentary, considering groundwater is an unseen Siddha Medicine”, is a new Endangered the Somaśambhupaddhati- resource that involves a large number Archives Programme supported ṭīkā of Trilocanaśiva. The of small and dispersed users that may by Arcadia and administrated by Somaśambhupaddhati is a prominent face many other concerns such as the British Library. It is a two-year ritual text that circulated widely land access or volatility of market for programme managed jointly by the throughout India and that has been farmers. In this context, the DIALAQ Department of Social Sciences and shown to have influenced both Śaiva project focuses on joint adaptation the Centre of Traditional Medicine and non-Śaiva ritual traditions. of agriculture and groundwater and Research, Chennai and that will Currently three editions of the text management. It explores the begin on 15 July 2015. are available: a Kashmirian one, a opportunity for (1) Fostering dialogue Siddha refers to the traditional medical South Indian one published from on long term issues and (2) Jointly system of Tamil Nadu, India. Although Devakottai and Hélène Brunner’s considering issues related to water recognised by the government of Pondicherry edition in four-volumes, (surface and ground ones), agriculture India, siddha medicine has not been none of which have systematically and land. In 2015, IFP and ATREE systemically studied, partly due to the used the extant Nepalese manuscript led a network that includes scientists difficulty of access to its texts, mostly witnesses. For a better understanding from several disciplines, institutions in form of manuscripts, kept in and critical reconstruction of the and farmer’s representatives in libraries or held by practitioners. The text, Nirajan Kafle has been assisting France, India, Morocco and United manuscripts consist of palm leaves S.A.S. Sarma in the collation of the States. The partners met for a 3-day made vulnerable by attacks by insect Nepalese manuscripts. Nepalese workshop that was held in Morocco larvae, rodents and fungus. Their witnesses conserve an early state of from February 23-27, 2015, and a digitalisation is crucial to preserve the text since they are older than any project proposal was submitted in the siddha knowledge from decay, and to of the sources used for the hitherto framework of the Call for proposals facilitate research in the medical field published editions. for Transformative Knowledge and on socio-cultural subjects related Networks by the International Social Contact: Nirajan Kafle to this medical system. Science Council and its partners. The [email protected] network activities were supported by The project aims at digitalising and a seed grant from the ISSC under cataloguing siddha manuscripts as IFP the Transformations to Sustainability well as material related to this medical Programme. This Programme is tradition belonging to the practitioners DIALAQ Project: Dialogic exploration funded by the Swedish International residing in the Kanniyakumari and of futures for sustainable farming on Development Cooperation Agency Tirunelveli districts and in northern overexploited aquifers (Sida) and serves as a contribution to and central districts of Tamil Nadu. Future Earth. Supplementary support Groundwater resources are confronted for seed grants was provided by the Contact: Dr. Brigitte Sébastia with an increased risk of depletion Swedish Secretariat for Environmental [email protected]

5 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India Separate self, interdependent self attention will be given to Dalits, democracy and the economy, and and new financial technologies - women and bonded labourers. bringing about new ways of contesting Lessons from rural southern India politics, development institutions and Project Funding: The Institute public policies. In rural southern India, the financial for Money, Technology & Financial landscape has seen tremendous change Inclusion at the University of This growing interest in social and over recent years. Social benefits, California, Irvine. solidarity economy (SSE) by both which are widespread, are now paid academics and politicians, however, into bank accounts. Ten years back, Principal Investigator: remains gender-blind, even though most poor rural households had never Venkatasubramanian G (IFP) these practices are highly gendered had contact with a bank (this was Co-Investigator: Isabelle Guérin and women play a major role in them. especially the case for Dalits, women (IRD) This research project aims at addressing and some workers, such as bonded Contact: Dr. Venkatasubramanian G. these gaps in SSE analysis and labourers). Today, however, they [email protected] don’t have a choice. Most now have policies from a feminist perspective. bank accounts and ATM cards. What Feminist analysis of social and At the same time, although feminist difference will this make? This research solidarity economy practices: economics has clearly articulated the project will look at this through two views from Latin America and concepts of social reproduction and complementary sets of questions. India the care economy (Esquivel 2014), these theorizations tend to pay little The first set of questions deals with Production, exchange and attention to forms of collective changes in financial behaviours and redistribution practices based on and solidarity-based care provision will draw on a longitudinal household solidarity can be found in almost (Fournier et al. 2013). This research survey (the same households surveyed all areas of economic activity – project will contribute to the empirical in 2010 will be surveyed again). Are from agriculture to handicraft, and theoretical debates on social bank accounts only used to receive manufacturing, finance, social and care reproduction. social benefits or are they also used to services. These practices privilege the save and manage daily transactions? The quest for solidarity (among producers, Research team: C. Verschuur use of banking financial transactions between producers and consumers, in (CV), F. Calvão (FC), PhD student will be quantified, compared to 2010 diverse territories and environments, I. Snikersproge (IE) (IHEID); V. data and disaggregated by caste, etc.) over individual (or group) profit Esquivel (VE) and a research assistant gender, occupation and location. and rent seeking behaviour. Social (RA) (UNRISD); I. Guérin (IG) and and solidarity economy practices do I. Hillenkamp (IH) (IRD-CESSMA), The second set of questions deals not aim to replace the market nor M. Fournier (MF) (Universidad with the consequences on social the state, but rather to re-articulate Universidad Nacional General relations and ‘world views’. Bank the latter two institutions under the Sarmiento, Argentina), F. Wanderley accounts and ATM cards are not only principles of reciprocity and solidarity. (FW) (Universidad Mayor de San technical tools, but also convey a This is particularly the case when André, Bolivia), M. Nobre (MN) particular vision of the world, based the logics of capital accumulation (Sempreviva Organização Feminista, on a specific accounting system in endanger the enjoyment of social and Brazil), R. Nandi (RN) (Institute the service of separate individuals. economic rights. Social and solidarity of Social Studies Trust, India), G. This vision of the world goes against economy (SSE) practices (re)invent Venkatasubramanian (GV) (Institut the customary financial practices of non-capitalist social relations and Français de Pondichéry, India), J.-L. constantly juggling with money and forms of management that allow for Laville (JLL) (CNAM). social relationships, where money the re-appropriation of the means of Project Funding: Swiss Network of (including quasi money such as gold), production by workers and the re- International Studies (SNIS), Geneva. debt and saving are the expression of activation of social relations that are relations of interdependency (whether at the antipodes of individualism Contact: Dr. Isabelle Guérin based on hierarchy and exploitation, and greed, opening possibilities to [email protected] or on solidarity and reciprocity). To organize social reproduction in a way in what extent does the introduction of which “all persons’ capabilities and the new financial technologies impact pre- quality of all lives” matter (Coraggio EVENTS existing visions of the world, and how 2009). Finally, social and solidarity do these two regimes of value interact economy practices make room for Se m i n a r s /Wo r k s h o p s /Ro u n d Ta b l e s / and coexist? Here too, particular debate to take place, thus articulating Le c t u r e s

6 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India CSH

International Seminars

¾¾ The Non-Utilitarian Foundations of General Social Theory - International Symposium of Cerisy, May 2015

Frederic Vandenberghe, visiting researcher at CSH, together with Alain Caillé, Philippe Chanial and Stéphane Dufoix, has organised a prestigious international symposium on The Non-utilitarian Foundations of General Social Theory. The symposium took place from the 16th to the 23rd of May 2015 at the Centre Culturel international de Cérisy-la- Prof. Leïla Choukroune, Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar and Dr. Virginie Dutoya during the discussion Salle, in Normandy, France. held at CSH Further details are available here: http://csh-delhi.com/conference/ “Interrogating Gender Equality in among India’s contemporary upper lecture-series/the-non-utilitarian- India”, moderated by Prof. Mary E. middle class. Dr. Virginie Dutoya foundations-of-general-social- John. Several aspects were analysed. examined the debate over women’s theory-international-symposium-of- Dr. Nida Kirmani who has been political representation in India cerisy-may-2015 conducting a research in Zakir Nagar, focusing on the evolution of its a Muslim-majority neighbourhood in terms, from ‘colonial protection’ to CSH Lecture Series Delhi, explored the relation between ‘empowerment’. Please see: “Religion, Gender and the Navigation of Urban Spaces”. Dr. Parul Bhandari http://csh-delhi.com/eventdetail/54/ ¾¾ Feminism, Poetry and Social Sciences interrogated notions of ‘compatibility’ lecture-series-interrogating-gender- equality-in-india On Tuesday 3 March 2015, in the and ‘interpersonal connection’ in eve of the International Women’s pre-marital and marital relationships Day, Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar and Dr. Virginie Dutoya animated a discussion on “Feminism, Poetry and Social Sciences”. With this event, the CSH launched a series of social sciences discussions on feminism and gender and the many ways these issues can be approached by a variety of disciplines. The event was recorded and can be watched here: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=wXAy9Crp1GI

¾¾ Interrogating Gender Equality in India

On 24 March 2015, the CSH organized a second conversation between Dr. Nida Kirmani, Dr. Parul Bhandari and Dr. Virginie Dutoya on Prof. Leïla Choukroune and Dr. Kriti Kapila during the lecture at CSH

7 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India ¾¾ From Rights to Adjudication and and Political Mobilizations ¾¾ CSH Research Seminar Series Beyond: Legal Anthropology Perspectives in the Indian Subcontinent’ on Contemporary India (EMOPOLIS), held its midterm Floriane Zaslavsky, PhD Candidate, workshop at the Centre for Social “Local voices, global networks. The On Thursday 16 April 2015 at CSH, Dr. Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) in development of Internet in India and Kriti Kapila and Dr. Anuj Bhuwania New Delhi on February 26-27, 2015; its influence on contemporary social participated to a discussion entitled this marks the beginning of a new movements: the case of the dalit “From Rights to Adjudication phase of institutional collaboration Ambedkarite movement”, 27 January and Beyond: Legal Anthropology between both centers. The 16 team 2015. Perspectives on Contemporary members (researchers in Political http://csh-delhi.com/ India”, chaired by Prof. Leïla Science, Sociology, Anthropology, eventdetail/49/local-voices-global- Choukroune. The photos and video of History, and Cultural Studies, based networks-the-development-of- the event can be accessed here: http:// in France, Germany, India, Pakistan, internet-in-india-and-its-influence- csh-delhi.com/conference/lecture- Singapore, Brazil and the US) shared on-contemporary-social-movements- series/from-rights-to-adjudication- the preliminary results of their the-case-of-the-dalit-ambedkarite and-beyond-legal-anthropology- fieldwork with Delhi-based colleagues Diane Philiponet, PhD Candidate, perspectives-on-contemporary-india from a variety of institutions. “The monkey’s eyes. A study ¾¾ Home, Belonging and Identity: The Read more: http://www.csh-delhi. of human/non-human primates Chinese Communities in India com/news/emopolis-emotions-and- relationships in two North Indian political-mobilizations-in-the-indian- cities”, 4 March 2015. On Monday 20 April 2015, Dr. subcontinent http://csh-delhi.com/ Jayani Bonnerjee, Dr. Rita eventdetail/56/the-monkeys-eyes- Chowdhury and Vidura Jang ¾¾ CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series a-study-of-human-nonhuman- Bahadur exchanged their views primates-relationships-in-two-north- on the ideas of home and the broad CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series, indian-cities range of concerns and emotions it “Power to the People? A study of encompasses for a minority diaspora Bangalore’s Urban Taskforces”, by Jean-Thomas Martelli, PhD such as the Chinese community in Neha Sami, 27 January 2015. Candidate, “From mobilization to India. The presentation was followed demobilization: understanding the by a conversation moderated by Prof. CSH-CPR Urban Workshop “You Can emergence of activist endeavours in Leïla Choukroune. The photos and Call it a Muffasil Town, but Nothing an Indian campus”, 6 May 2015. video of the event can be accessed Less: New Narratives of Urbanization http://csh-delhi.com/ here: http://csh-delhi.com/conference/ and Urbanism from Census Towns in eventdetail/60/phd-seminar-from- lecture-series/home-belonging-and- West Bengal”, by Srilata Sircar, 23 mobilisation-to-demobilisation- identity-the-chinese-community-in-india February 2015. understanding-the-emergence-of- activist-endeavours-in-an-indian- CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series campus “Pipe Politics: Contested Infrastructures of Millenial Mumbai”, by Lisa Bjorkman, 24 February 2015. ¾¾ Eco-CSH workshop CSH-CPR Urban Workshop “Fear Bhattacharya Ruchira, “Nutritional and the City: Negotiating Everyday Life & Health Outcomes in Palanpur”, as a Young Baloch Man in Karachi”, by Eco-CSH Worshop, CSH, New Delhi, Nida Kirmani, 31 March 2015. 16/01/2015. “We are Leclère Chloé, “Total sanitation Vidura Jang Bahadur durint the discussion at CSH-CPR Urban Workshop CSH visioning it: Availing the Futures of the campaign, social capital and castes”, Delhi Metro”, by Rashmi Sadana, 28 Eco-CSH Worshop, CSH, New Delhi, Seminars and Workshops April 2015. 10/02/2015. EMOPOLIS CSH-CPR Urban Workshop “Public Banerjee Aditi, “Credit in interest litigation as a slum demolition Palanpur”, Eco-CSH Worshop, For the first time, a collective research machine”, by Anuj Bhuwania, 26 May CSH, New Delhi, 02/03/2015. project based at the CEIAS, ‘Emotions 2015.

8 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India Gaurav Sarthak, “What Can the role in shaping India’s trade policy. Please see: http://csh-delhi. Country-side Tell Us About the Prof. Leïla Choukroune presented com/images/agenda/Democratie_ Country?”, Eco-CSH Worshop, CSH, a paper on “China-India comparative democratisations_%28IEA%20-%20 New Delhi, 25/03/2015. trade policies paths and recent legal IEP%20-%20CPJP%292015.pdf developments”. Kaur Japneet, Joshi Bhavna, Banerjee Aditi, Ahirwal Gajanand, Please see: http://www.nccr-trade. ¾¾ Presenting MAGeo Project, 16 – 17 Meena Gaurav , “Tenancy, Non- org/events/international-conference- June 2015, Paris Farm Diversification, Inequality and a-stocktaking-of-indias-trade-policy- Credit Market in Palanpur over Six past-present-and-future/ Eric Daudé, head of the Risks and Decades”, Eco-CSH Worshop, CSH, Territorial Dynamics of the CSH, New Delhi, 22/05/2015. ¾¾ Discussing India and Pakistan: new has presented the project MAGEO dynamics and perspectives, Graduate (Modelisation Agent Geography) at the Centre des Congrès de la Villette, ¾¾ Reading Group on Elites Conference on South Asia, 18 – 19 June Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris, 2015, Paris on 16 and 17 June 2015. 1st session: Invited talk by Prof. Saurabh Dube From 17-19 June 2015, the Network The event was part of the 2nd Salon th (8 January) of Researchers in International de l’Innovation co-organized by nd 2 session: Economic Elite Affairs (NORIA) has organized its first the CNRS, INRA and CVT Athena. th (28 January) Graduate Conference on South MAGEO is a modeling and simulation rd 3 session: Networks of Elite Asia. The CSH along with the Doctoral platform, which provides a user- th (18 Feb) School of Sciences Po (Paris), the Centre friendly modeling and development th 4 session: Education and Elites de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and environment for spatial agent-based (11the March) King’s India Institute (London) were simulations. It is developed since 2010 th 5 session: Education and Elites the main partners of this event, which by researchers of UMR IDEES (CNRS) st (1 April) aimed to provide opportunities for PhD in Rouen (France), and funded by th 6 session: Elite and consumption in students working on South Asia in the the French ANR (National Research nd Delhi (22 of April) areas of political science and international Agency) and FEDER (European th 7 session: Family, Marriage and relations to discuss their research projects Regional Development Fund). Elites (13th May) and to improve their theoretical and methodological approaches. Please see: https://sites.google.com/ site/mageosim/ CSH Partners Events Please see: http://www.noria-research. com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ ¾¾ A stocktaking of India’s Trade Programme-GNC-South-Asia-.pdf EFEO Policy: Past, Present and the Future, IHC (New Delhi), 21-22 May 2015 ¾¾ Towards a Postcolonial Theory of Democracy, 17 June 2015, University of ¾¾ Third NETamil Workshop on This international conference Cergy-Pontoise Commentary idioms organised by Jindal Global Law School and the World Trade Institute (WTI- On 17 June, Prof. Partha Chatterjee, During the first two weeks of February Bern) was aiming to situate India in (Columbia University, New York), has the Third NETamil Workshop the Pantheon of emerging nations and presented his views on a Post-Colonial on Commentary idioms will be see how its development prospects Theory of Democracy. The event was conducted in the centre of the EFEO and the constraints it carries from the part of the workshop series “Démocraties in Pondicherry. Reading sessions will license Raj days affect its ability to use / Démocratisations” organised by the be guided by each of the participants trade with a view to overcoming growth Political Sciences Institute of Saint- for commentarial traditions in bottlenecks and shifting the country’s Germain-en-Laye and the Centre for various intellectual domains in the political economy narrative towards Political and Juridical Philosophy of three languages Tamil, Sanskrit and more openness and competition and the University of Cergy-Pointoise. The Maṇipravāḷam, and even in Telugu less policy precaution. The conference lecture was moderated by Prof. Carlos and Malayālam. brought together some of the leading M. Herrera, Director of the CPJP, academics, policy makers, diplomats University of Cergy and Prof. Leïla Contact: Dr. Eva Wilden and civil society representatives who Choukroune, Director of the Centre for [email protected] have had and continue to have a major Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH).

9 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India Sciences, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, on 12 March 2015. Panel discussion on “The Yin and Yang of Heritage, the Tangible and the Intangible” by Tara Murali, Benny Kuriakose, P.T. Krishnan and K.T. Ravindran, on 28 February 2015. Lecture on “How Economical Issues Reflect Religious Lobbying Within The Community. Case study: Dalai Lama’s Visit in Zanskar, Indian Himalayas” by Dr. Salomé Deboos, Teacher- Researcher, University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, France, on 3 March 2015. Lecture on “Military Administra­tion from the Arthaśāstra in Modern Lecture on “ IFP DNA technologies Prospective” by Dibakami Krutartha, in wildlife conservation” by For more details on these events, please Ph.D student at the Indology Department Dr. P Anuradha Reddy, Scientist, consult our website, at the following of the IFP, on 11 February 2015. Centre for Cellular and Molecular address: http://www.ifpindia.org/ Biology (CCMB), Laboratory for the Lecture on “Invisible community content/seminar Conservation of Endangered Species, and peerless science: case studies Hyderabad, on 4 May 2015. from Morocco and India” by National Seminars Dr. Michel Dubois, CNRS Senior Consultation meeting on “Water Lecture on “Are Portraits Good to Research Fellow, GEMASS - Paris Stewardship for sustainable Think? Reflections of Tamil Studio Sorbonne University, France, on 2 Development” held in Pondicherry Portraiture” by Dr. Zoe E. Headley, February 2015. IFP-CEIAS/CNRS, on 16 April 2015. on May 5, 2015: Water Stewardship Lecture on “Sounding the Invisible: for Sustainable Development of Lecture on “Terrestrial LiDAR in a Musical Pantheon in Bastar, the Bioregion. Please see: http:// forest areas” by Jules MOREL, PhD Chhattisgarh” by Dr. Nicolas Prévot, www.ifpindia.org/content/ candidate, Geomatics Laboratory, Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Paris water-stewardship-sustainable- IFP, on 25 March 2015. Ouest Nanterre University (France), development-bioregion on 22 January 2015. Lecture on “Biomedical governance Contact: Audrey Richard-Ferroudji IFP Reading groups [email protected] beyond the state?: Examining the role of patient organisations in 30 January: Bhatti S. and Pinney, Lectures held at the IFP shaping access to experimental C. (2011) ‘Optic-Clash: Modes of stem cell therapy in India” by Dr. Visuality in India’ in A Companion Lecture on “Pollen and Rare Earth Carolyn Heitmeyer, Research Fellow- to the Anthropology of India, (Ed) Elements studies on Quaternary ‘Bionetworking in Asia’, Department Isabelle Clark-Deces West Sussex: Sediment Cores in the Cauvery of Anthropology, School of Global Wiley-Blackwell, pp.225-240. Delta” by Prayan Paramita Mohapatra, Studies, University of Sussex, United 20 March: Rajan, K. S. (2007). PhD candidate at the Pondicherry Kingdom, on 23 March 2015. Experimental values-Indian clinical University, on 22 June 2015. Lecture on “Taxonomy and trials and surplus health. New Left Lecture on “Analysis of the Systematics of the Tropical Asian Review, (45), 67-88. Institutional Framework for spiny solanums: from India to New Miscellaneous Artificial Groundwater Recharge Guinea” by Dr. Xavier Aubriot, Post in Tamil Nadu” by Jeanne LATUSEK, doctoral research assistant in tropical The IFP, in collaboration with Pondy student in Master of Engineering in Asia spiny solanums phylogenetics ART (http://pondyart.org/), presented Integrated Water, on 7 May 2015. and taxonomy, Department of Life a photo exhibition on “Heritage of

10 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India currently pursuing a MRes in Lettres, Littératures et Civilisations from the University of Maine (France) and is specialized in Youth Literature. She is focusing on Children’s Literature in contemporary India, regarding education issues linked to the current situation of Women in Indian society. At the CSH, she is covering Art & Creation at large, by linking the Social Sciences and Humanities to artistic works, including films, photography and painting as well as music and Photo: Photo exhibition “Heritage of the Family: Tamil Studio Portraiture (1880 – 1980)” literature.

Disha Mendiratta is currently the Family: Tamil Studio Portraiture education institutions. Before joining pursuing MSc (Economics) from TERI (1880 – 1980)” from 25th February the King’s, he completed a MA in University, after completing graduation to 25th March 2015, on the Goubert Political Science & International in Economics from Delhi University. Avenue (beach road). Relations at Sciences Po (Aix-en- Simultaneously, she pursued French Provence, France) and a joint Erasmus classes and has successfully completed The exhibition presented a series of Mundus Masters in Global Studies till Delf B1. She joined CSH as an portraits collected from across Tamil at Jawaharlal Nehru University intern, working under the guidance of Nadu by Dr. Zoe Headley and a team (Delhi, India), Roskilde University Dr. Bruno Dorin. of French and Indian researchers from (Roskilde, Denmark) and University Corentin Gilbert studies “Law, the IFP’s Social Science Department. of Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland). The The images are part of an ongoing Economics and Management” at project he is currently unravelling the École normale supérieure (ENS), project tracing the social history examines the processes through which of Tamil studio photography and Rennes, France. At CSH, he started an certain students develop contentious internship under the supervision of Dr. investigating the visual rhetoric of political capital within pre-existent family portraiture in South India. Leila Choukroune and Dr. Sangeeta organisational and cultural structures. Khorana on the topic concerning The IFP team is working to preserve I order to conduct his last fieldwork in Health and Trade in the developing this historical legacy as a digital archive Delhi, the CSH granted him a four- countries, with a focus on India. in their library is being constituted for months scholarship. everyone’s benefit. The full archive Arthur Imbert has joined CSH as …at the EFEO will be available for public access at an intern under the supervision of Dr. the completion of the project. Bruno Dorin and deals with Surplus Emma STEIN, PhD Candidate for value Accounting Method applied the History of Art at Yale University Contact: Dr. Zoe Headley to Indian agricultural sector. After (USA) arrived in January with an AIIS [email protected] he completed a bachelor’s degree in scholarship for a year to pursue her Economics at Sorbonne University, research on “Kanchipuram as Temple WELCOME Paris, he joined the Ecole Nationale City: The Local and the Global, ca. de la Statistique et de l’Administration 8th-12th century AD”. Economique …at the CSH (ENSAE, Paris), where he’s currently studying Economics Melinda FODOR, a doctoral and Statistics. student at the EPHE (Section IV) Jean-Thomas Martelli is a Phd received a grant from Hesam to stay candidate at the King’s India Institute, Moane Rosello holds a Diploma in in Pondicherry 1 April to 20 June King’s college London (UK). He is Filmmaking from the Ecole Supérieure 2015 to study the dramatic genre of currently studying contemporary de Réalisation Audiovisuelle of Paris, the Prakrit saṭṭaka. She has further social and organisational issues of and a PGD in Film & TV Production received a scholarship from the EFEO, urban youth, with a specific focus from the Asian Academy of Film which will enable her to extend her on targeted north-Indian higher and TV (Uttar-Pradesh). She is stay for a further 4 months.

11 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India …at the IFP from 1 January, 2015 to 31 January, Ahana Roy left CSH in February 2017 to work on ‘Lithography and 2015 after spending more than two Festus ODINGO and Kamil Photography in South India/ Tamil years as a Research Associate at CSH Ousseni ALI, two 2nd year post- Nadu’. working on the NOPOOR project in graduate students at the University which she was in charge of the analysis Montesquieu Bordeaux 4, France, GOODBYE of poverty scenario in India through joined the Social Sciences Department the use of the Multi-dimensional from 20 June to 8 September 2015, …at the CSH Poverty Index. as trainees, to work on “statistical and Karim Safayet left CSH in February econometrical analysis of labour and Apara Banerjee left CSH in January 2015 after spending more than two financial practices of rural households” 2015 after spending more than two years as a Research Assistant working under the local supervision of Dr. years as a Research Associate at CSH on the NOPOOR project but also Audrey RICHARD-FERROUDJI. working on the NOPOOR project. on SUBURBIN, trying to assess the Ariane TANGUY, Engineer in Image Her work involved analysis of different relationship between urbanization and Processing, joined the Laboratory of data sets like NFHS, NSS and Census growth. Applied Informatics and Geomatics data using statistical software such (LIAG) from 5 May 2015 to 14 April as SPSS, STATA and Excel. The …at the EFEO 2016, as an International Volunteer project also required several spatial in Administration (VIA), to work on analyses such as mapping the changes Virginie OLIVIER, doctoral student the study of forest carbon under the in multidimensional poverty scenario at the University of Paris IV and supervision of Dr. Maxime RÉJOU- in India over the years using Arc GIS scholar of the EFEO, arrived on 12th MÉCHAIN. software, formulating questionnaires December 2015 to spend 6 months at for household interviews, conducting the Centre to continue her research Antoine JACQUET, Masters surveys in rural and urban areas of on the Iconography of Agni, Brahma student in Economics at the École Mumbai. and the Brahmins in ancient Indian polytechnique, Paris, France, joined sculpture. the Social Sciences Department Jayani Bonnerjee left CSH in May from 21 March to 28 August, 2015, 2015 after two years as a Post-Doctoral Michael GOLLNER (McGill as a trainee, to work on “French Fellow and becomes an associate University, Canada) received a three- community in Pondicherry: historical fellow at CSH. A cultural geographer, month scholarship from the Shastri perspective”, under the supervision of her work focuses on notions of home, Indo-Canadian Institute and arrived Dr. Aurélie VARREL. belonging and identity and the in Pondicherry in January to pursue multiple inter-links between those. research for his doctoral thesis on Dr. Priscilla CLAEYS, Post doctoral She analyzed extensively –during her the Construction and Reception of the researcher from the University of PhD and beyond- on the Chinese Kāmikāgama. He worked at the IFP Louvain (UCL), Belgium, joined the community of Kolkata. with Dr. T. Ganesan. Social Sciences Department on 15 February, 2015 for a one-year period, Guillaume Gagnerot left CSH in Torsten TSCHACHER (FU Berlin) to work on “Peasants’ rights in India”. June 2015 after spending two years as visited the EFEO from 8 to 20 March IT expert, providing much valuable to study Islamic Tamil texts and their Dr. Valérie RAEVEL, from the help in maintaining and improving links with wider Tamil literature. University of Montpellier, France, the CSH network, website and beyond joined the Ecology Department taking care of the communication of Kei KATAOKA, Associate Professor of from 12 January to 12 July, 2015, the Centre. Indian Philosophy, Kyushu University as a trainee, to work on “Functional (Fukuoka, Japan), left the Pondicherry plasticity of plant communities Imdadul Haider left CSH in Centre of the EFEO on 24th March associated to founder cushion plants February 2015 after spending 2015 after spending two weeks reading in Bolivia”, under the supervision of more than two years as a Research Sadyojyotis’s Tattvasaṃgraha with its Dr. François MUNOZ. Assistant at CSH working on the commentary by Aghoraśiva with S.L.P. NOPOOR project in which he was Anjaneya Sarma. Dr. Gabriele ALEX, Professor of in charge of the analysis of poverty Social Anthropology at the University scenario in India through the use Dr. Tim CAHILL, Associate of Tübingen, Germany, joined the of the Multi-dimensional Poverty Professor at Loyola University New Social Sciences Department of the IFP Index. Orleans (USA), came to Pondicherry

12 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India for four months (February to May Centre from 30 January to 16 February to work on “Social stratification of 2015) as part of his tour of southern to pursue her research on the role Pondicherry’s territory from 1991 India. Tim Cahill studied with S.L.P. of tradition in the contemporary to 2011” , under the supervision of Anjaneya Sarma in the areas of pancarātra religious practices of Dr. Remy DELAGE, left on 15 May, grammar and poetics. Vaishnavas in South India. 2015.

Victor DAVELLA, Centre for Andrey KLEBANOV, doctoral Dr. Carolyn HEITMEYER, PhD the Study of Manuscript Cultures, student at the University of Hamburg, in Anthropology, who had joined University of Hamburg (Project spent the months of January and the Social sciences Department on NETamil), left the Pondicherry Centre February in Pondicherry to participate January 21, 2015 to work on ‘An of the EFEO on 2nd March 2015 after in the 3rd NETamil Workshop and to anthropological study of stem cell spending two weeks participating read with S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma. science in India’, left on 5 May, 2015. in the 3rd NETamil workshop held from 2 to 13 February 2015. He read Anna A. SLACZKA (Curator of Fabian DAVENEL, MA. student some parts of the Citramīmāṃsā, South Asian Art, Rijksmuseum, in Geography from the Bordeaux- Kuvalayānanda with its commentaries Amsterdam), was in Pondicherry from Montaigne University, France, (Rasikarañjanī and Alaṅkāracandrikā), 12 February to 8 March to pursue her who had joined the Social Sciences Vākyapadīya: Vṛttisamuddeśa, and studies on the dating and conservation Department on January 19, 2015, as Paribhāṣenduśekhara with S.L.P. of Chola bronzes. a trainee, to work on ‘Dalit movement Anjaneya Sarma. in post-colonial Madurai: political …at the IFP processions and protests in the social Gérard COLAS (CNRS Senior production of the city’ under the Fellow, CEIAS, EHESS, Paris) left LIJOMOL Jose, student in Masters supervision of Dr. Remy DELAGE, Pondicherry after having spent three of Library & Information Science at left on 22 April, 2015. months (9th December 2014 to 9th the Pondicherry University who had Mathieu MILLAN, PhD student at March 2015) at the Pondicherry joined the Library on 2 June 2015, the INRA, France, who had joined Centre of the EFEO. He pursued as a trainee under the supervision of the Ecology Department on January his research on Vaiṣṇava doctrines, Ms. Anurupa NAIK, left on 25 June 18, 2015, as a trainee, to work on concentrating on Bālakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa’s 2015. ‘Architectural traits and variability Prameyārṇava (18th c.). The study of among growth forms of bank this text is part of a Franco-German ARUN M., student in Masters of community’ under the supervision project on the Śuddhādvaita system of Library & Information Science at of Dr. Claude EDLIN, left on 13 Vallabha, directed by G. Colas and A. the Pondicherry University who had February, 2015. Mishra (Heidelberg). joined the Library on 1 June 2015, as a trainee under the supervision of Dr. Yoan COUDERT, from the Ben WILLIAMS (Harvard University), Ms. Anurupa NAIK, left on 24 June University of Cambridge, UK, who Fulbright scholar, has left Pondicherry 2015. had joined the Ecology Department after a nine-month stay during which on 3 January, 2015 as part of a training he pursued his doctoral research on the PADMAVATHY V., First-year in plant architecture analysis under uses of benedictory verses (maṅgala) student in M.Sc Botany at the the supervision of Dr. Claude EDLIN, in the corpus of Abhinavagupta, a American College, Madurai, who had left on 1 February, 2015. medieval Kashmiri polymath. joined the Ecology Department on 28 May 2015, as a trainee, to work on Giovanni CIOTTI (University “Introduction to quantitative pollen MILESTONES of Hamburg) came to Pondicherry morphology” under the supervision to participate in the 3rd NETamil of Dr. ANUPAMA K. and in the EFEO Workshop in February. During this visit framework of the “Paleoenvironments he also consulted R. Sathyanarayanan in south India” programme, left on 12 Kuṟaḷ Pīṭam award to Dr. Eva and visited some Libraries in June 2015. Wilden Tamilnadu to consult and photograph manuscripts related to his project. Framboise FOLLIOT, Master 2 In recognition of her eminent scholarly student in Geography at the University works on Classical Tamil language, Dr. Marzenna CZERNIAK of Aix-Marseille, France, who had Eva Wilden, who is head of the Tamil DROŻDŻOWICZ (Jagiellonian joined the Social Sciences Department Section of the Pondicherry Centre of University, Cracow), stayed at the on 27 February, 2015, as a trainee, the EFEO and Director of the NETamil

13 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India in recognition for their lifetime achievement in Sanskrit language and literature, namely, Shri S. Sambandan Sivacharya (IFP), Shri Francois Grimal (EFEO), Shri V. Kutumba Sastry (Sri Somanath Sanskrit University) and Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat (EPHE). PUBLICATIONS

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Bhāṭṭatantrarahasyam. The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya of Khaṇḍadeva with the Sāraprakāśikā commentary by N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya; associate editor S. Lakshminarasimham, Regards sur l’Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 4, Institut Français de Project - “Going from Hand to Hand Cauvery/P-11) and was co- supervised Pondichéry, xxi, 664 p., 2015. - Networks of Intellectual Exchanges by Dr. Anupama K. Language: Sanskrit. 1200 Rs (52 €). in the Tamil Learned Tradition” - ISBN : 978-81-8470-204-0. financed by the ERC Advanced Grant Prof. Y. Subbarayalu awarded (No 339470), received the Kuraḷ Pīṭam the Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri award (reserved for the foreign Tamil Birth Centenary Gold Medal scholars) for the years 2011-2013 on for the year 2014 by The Asiatic 14th May 2015 at the Rashtrapati Society Bhavan in New Delhi. Prof. Y. Subbarayalu, head of the Indology Department at the IFP, IFP has been awarded, on May 4, 2015 in Kolkata, the Hem Chandra Mrs. Prayan Paramita Mohapatra Raychaudhuri Birth Centenary Gold defends her PhD thesis Medal for the year 2014 by The Asiatic Society for his outstanding Mrs. Prayan Paramita Mohapatra, contribution in early Indian History PhD candidate at the Pondicherry with special emphasis on epigraphy. University, successfully defended her The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya of PhD thesis “Pollen and Rare Earth IFP/EFEO Khaṇḍadeva (17th c.) belongs to the Element (REE) - speciation Bhāṭṭa school of Mīmāṃsā. It deals studies on Quaternary Sediments Certificate of Honour awarded mainly with the meaning of roots and from the Cauvery Delta, South by the President of India to four suffixes, and their role in conveying India” on 24th June 2015 (11am) scholars associated to the IFP/ the meaning of the sentence. Though at the Seminar Hall, Department EFEO this is a topic of grammar, it is widely of Earth Sciences, Pondicherry discussed in Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā University. The Palynological part of The President of India, Shri Pranab works as well. The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya this study was carried out at the IFP Mukherjee, has presented at the is divided into two parts. The first part in the framework of the DST funded Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi begins with the definition of dharma, project Pollen Analyses of Quaternary on March 23, 2015, the Presidential the main concept of Mīmāṃsā, and Sediments: Reconstructing Vegetation Award of Certificate of Honour for the then deals at length with the meaning and Environment History in the Cauvery year 2014, to four scholars associated of injunctional suffix (liṅ), refuting Floodplains (DST No: SR/S4/ES-21/ to the French Institute of Pondicherry the views of logicians and establishing

14 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India bhāvanā (creative energy) as the main Rites of expiation and reparation Edited by Dominic Goodall in meaning of the sentence. In the second (prāyaścitta) may not seem central collaboration with Alexis Sanderson & part, the author discusses the meaning to the history of the Mantramārga, Harunaga Isaacson with contributions of nominal suffixes (sup), quoting but they provide a fascinating angle of Nirajan Kafle, Diwakar Acharya relevant rules from Pāṇinian grammar. from which to view the evolution & others, Collection Indologie n˚ Though Khaṇḍadeva’s interpretation of this broad religious tradition. 128; Early Tantra Series n˚ 1, Institut of Pāṇinian rules deviates from the Instead of focussing on the evolution Français de Pondichéry/Ecole française grammatical tradition in some cases, he and philosophical defence of Śaiva d’Extrême-Orient/Asien-Afrika- tries to prove that there is no violation doctrines, or on the examination Institut, Universität Hamburg, 662 p. of grammar by the Mīmāṃsakas. of ritual practices and of theories developed to justify and shore up such Language: Sanskrit, English. 1200 Rs Given the complexity of the practices, this study puts the spotlight (52 €). ISBN: 978-81-8470-205-7 Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya, Prof. Ramanuja instead on social dimensions of the (IFP) / 978-2-85539-151-9 (EFEO). Tatacharya presents it here with his religion. own commentary, the Sāraprakāśikā. Also included are an index of the This book contains a first edition Pāṇinian rules, an index of the kārikās and translation of a South Indian (citations) and a bibliography. compendium of Śaiva expiation rituals compiled by Trilocanaśiva, a Keywords: Mîmâṃsâ, Bhâṭṭa school, twelfth-century theologian celebrated commentary. for his Siddhāntasārāvalī, a metrical treatise on the Śaivasiddhānta that is IFP/EFEO CO-PUBLICATIONS still traditionally studied in the Tamil- Śaiva Rites of Expiation. A speaking South today. Trilocana does First Edition and Translation of not reveal the sources from which Trilocanaśiva’s Twelfth-Century he quotes, many of which are lost to Prāyaścittasamuccaya (With a us, but an earlier Northern treatise Transcription of Hṛdayaśiva’s on the same theme from Malwa by Prāyaścittasamuccaya). a certain Hrdayaśiva consists only in large labeled quotations, typically Transmitted to us in a well-preserved Critically edited & translated by R. whole chapters, from those sources. A ninth-century Nepalese manuscript, Sathyanarayanan with an introduction Nepalese palm-leaf manuscript kept the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā has come by Dominic Goodall, Collection in Cambridge that is dated to 1157 a d in recent years to be recognised as Indologie n˚ 127, Institut Français may be the earliest surviving codex to probably the oldest surviving complete de Pondichéry / Ecole française transmit Hrdayaśiva’s text and we have scripture of the Mantramārga. d’Extrême-Orient, 2015, 651 p. included a complete transcription of Although its historical importance has that manuscript as an appendix. A been hinted at by a range of scholars Language: Sanskrit, English. combined quarter-verse-index helps across the twentieth century, this is 1200 Rs (52 €). ISBN: 978-81- readers to navigate both Trilocana’s the first time its text appears in print. 8470-203-3 (IFP) / 978-2-85539- and Hrdayaśiva’s works. 218-9 (EFEO). This volume presents a critical edition and annotated translation of the three Our introduction attempts to trace earliest layers of the text: the Mūlasūtra, the social developments within the Uttarasūtra and Nayasūtra. The topics Śaivasiddhānta that give context to the dealt with include cosmology, rituals of evolution of Śaiva reparatory rites. worship and initiation, and forms of yoga. Keywords: Śaivism, expiation, A lengthy introduction sets these sūtras ritual, social history, Sanskrit, textual in context, in particular by examining criticism, Dharmaśāstra. the evidence for dating them. There follow a summary of their contents, an The Niśvāsatattvasamhitā. The account of the early manuscript and its Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra. three twentieth-century apographs, and Volume 1. A Critical Edition a treatment of the various ways in which & Annotated Translation of the the language of the Niśvāsa deviates Mūlasūtra, Uttarasūtra & Nayasūtra. from Pāṇinian norms.

15 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India Keywords: Mantramārga, Śaivism, these for the Mixed Practitioner. This Śaivasiddhānta, Early Tantra, Ritual, unique system of sâdhakas marks an Initiation, Cosmography, Yoga. early phase in the development of classification of practitioners seeking The Brahmayāmalatantra or liberation and magical powers, and Picumata. Volume II. The Religious gives us an insight into the tantric Observances and Sexual Rituals of world of extremes: of rule-bound the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, sexual encounters involving several 21, and 45. female partners and highly impure A Critical Edition and Annotated substances on the one hand, and of Translation by Csaba Kiss, Collection asceticism, strict vegetarianism and Indologie n˚ 130; Early Tantra Series chastity on the other. n˚ 3, Institut Français de Pondichéry The introduction deals with the with an apparatus recording the / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient main topics raised by the selected variants of all surviving manuscripts / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität chapters, as well as with problems and hundreds of quotations found Hamburg, 373 p. of the sometimes extremely non- in grammatical commentaries. Using standard (Aiœa) Sanskrit that the Language: Sanskrit (in Roman the eleven Kalittokai manuscripts that oldest manuscript transmits. One of transliteration), English. 750 Rs (32 €). survive to this day, including a newly- the appendices provides a summary of ISBN: 978-81-8470-207-1 (IFP) / found one which no other Kalittokai the first twenty-five chapters (about 978-2-85539-153-3 (EFEO). edition knows anything about, this one quarter of the Brahmayâmala) to edition gives reasons for choosing facilitate further study. The extensive the appropriate variants. Besides, the index includes all important keywords introduction is given in both Tamil and all major Aiœa phenomena. and English. Keywords: Mantramārga, Śaivism, Among the Caṅkam anthologies, Bhairavatantras, Early Tantra, Kalittokai alone is composed in Transgressive Sexual Rituals. kali metre, which, according to the Tolkāppiyam, is appropriate for Akam EFEO PUBLICATIONS poems, which makes it a special work in the Tamil Caṅkam corpus. Kalittokai, Mulamum Naccinarkkiniyar uraiyum, IFP/CSH CO-PUBLICATIONS Cempatippu, Tokuti 1 et 2. Selected Readings on Small Town A Critical Edition by T. Rajeshwari, Dynamics in India. Critical Texts of Cankam Literature The Brahmayâmalatantra (aka 3.1 et 3.2, EFEO / Tamizhmann Picumata) is probably one of the Bhuvaneswari Raman, Mythri Prasad- Pathipakkam, vol. I : ccviii, 321 p. et earliest surviving Œaiva tantras, and Aleyamma, Rémi de Bercegol, Eric vol. II : vii, 468 p. possibly the earliest one known to us Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah, USR of the Bhairavatantra tradition. The 3330 “Savoirs et Mondes Indiens” Language: Tamil. ISBN: 978 2 85539 Working Papers Series - 7; SUBURBIN present volume contains a critical 154 0. edition and annotated translation Papers Series - 2, Institut Français of three of its chapters: one on the There have been many good-quality de Pondichéry / Centre de Sciences central maṇḍala of the cult, one on editions of the earliest anthologies of Humaines, 2015, 114 p. preliminary religious observances Classical Tamil poetry, but they are Language: English. (Not for sale). (vrata) prescribed for all practitioners not critical ones, since they do not Available online at https://hal. (sâdhaka), and one on instructions for give all the information concerning archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01139006 each individual category of sâdhaka what they are based on. The project — instructions on transgressive for critically editing ancient Tamil This literature review aims at sexual rituals for the Tâlaka, on works, launched four years ago with summarizing the state of knowledge strict rules of conduct for the chaste Naṟṟiṇai and Kuṟuntokai, aims to related to small urbanised settlements. Carubhojin, and on a combination of meet this end. Each poem is edited The significance of researching

16 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India entrepreneurship; and E) the last location and groundwater depletion section on Governance makes sense have made it susceptible to flooding of the literature on decentralization, and seawater infiltration, respectively. government schemes, governance and To examine these issues, attention is the political economy of small towns. given to the fragmented institutional This review constitutes one of the arrangements in place for governing steps undertaken within the Subaltern water, as well as to the norms that Urbanization in India project (www. underpin the dominant technoscientific suburbin.hypotheses.org) to bring discourse in terms of solutions (e.g., back to the fore the research on small desalination plants, interstate pipelines), towns. which tend to marginalize alternative voices. In order to zoom in on the key Keywords : small town, urbanization, water issues, including climate-related India, literature review. these localities can be inferred water vulnerabilities, research focused in particular on one area, the “IT Corridor” from the fact that a growing share Water Governance and Climate in the city’s southern periphery, a mega of urban population lives in such Change Issues in Chennai. agglomerations with a population project built to enhance economic growth above 10,000 and below 50,000 to Samuel Roumeau, Aicha Seifelislam, by attracting new investments in the IT 100,000 inhabitants. This fact is not Shazade Jameson, Loraine Kennedy, industry. The state government’s special limited to India and a large share of Institut Français de Pondichéry / policy for this zone, i.e., 24/7 water supply the urban population worldwide lives Centre de Sciences Humaines, 2015, and efficient sewerage infrastructures, in small and medium cities, which 30 p. (USR 3330 “Savoirs et Mondes aims to reassure potential investors but are understudied. The same dearth of Indiens” Working Papers Series - 8). meanwhile threatens to deepen already research applies to the Indian context, existing social and spatial inequalities in Language: English. (Not for sale). as will be evident in this review, despite access to basic services. Moreover, the IT Available online at https://hal. the importance of the resilience of Corridor mega project increases risks for archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01144122 an urban system comprising a large the fragile coastal ecosystem, including the number of small towns and the Pallikaranai Marshland, which is already diversity of these settlements in terms under threat from encroachments, garbage of their economic base and their disposal and the dumping of untreated social structure. This literature review sewerage. The research indicates a crucial is structured around five themes: lack of awareness about the risks related to A) the first section lays out issues climate change among decision-makers, related to estimating the magnitude planners and residents. It concludes that and sources of demographic growth the fragmented governance structure and in order to infer the contribution lack of integrated analyses of hazards of small towns to urban dynamics; and socioeconomic vulnerabilities are B) the second section on Small the primary causes of water-related Towns: Sources of Growth explores deficiencies in Chennai. the economic processes supporting Keywords: Chennai, India, water the expansion of small towns, and governance, sustainability, water debates the dominant vision of the vulnerabilities, climate change. relationship between urbanization Drawing on original research produced in and growth, as explained by the New the framework of the FP7 research project Economic Geography; C) the third “Chance2Sustain” (www.chance2sustain. BOOKS section focuses on the transformation eu), this Working Paper provides an of small town economies and social overview of key water and climate change CSH structures while examining practices issues in Chennai, India and analyses on- of entrepreneurship, circulation going challenges for directing governance of labour, social mobility as well towards sustainability principles. These DE BERCEGOL, R., Dans as caste and gender inequalities; issues take on special significance in Les Marges de L’Inde Urbaine. La D) the fourth section on Land and Chennai, which has the lowest per capita décentralisation dans des petites territorial transformations focuses on availability of water among India’s large municipalités en Uttar Pradesh. Presses the relation between property and cities and where the city’s geographical Universitaires de Rennes, Mars 2015.

17 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India and International Law, For a Holistic and Oscar Salemink. Routledge (Human) Rights Based Approach”, in Handbook of Religions in Asia. London: Julien Chaisse (ed), The Liberalization Routledge. Pp 63-76. 2015. of Water and Sanitation Services”, Cambridge University Press, 2015. NAUDET, J., “Paths to the elite in France and in the United States” in Choukoune L., “ Litigating Elites, Privilege and Excellence, edited Disasters in International Investment by Agnès van Zanten and Stephen Law”, in Katja Samuel (ed), Edward Ball with Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin, Elgar Research Handbook, Disasters Routledge, “World Year Book of and International Law, 2015. Education” series, 2015.

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18 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India of the Śaivāgamas in South India, ARTICLES IN REFEREED (1944-2014). Revue du MAUSS In: Balbir N. and Szuppe M. (eds), Semestrielle, v. 45, p. 386-390, 2015. Lecteurs et copistes dans les traditions JOURNALS CAILLE, A., VANDENBERGHE, manuscrites iraniennes, indiennes et F. . Neo-classical sociology: The centrasiatiques / Scribes and readers CSH prospects of social theory today. in Iranian, indian and Central Asian European Journal of Social Theory, v. manuscript traditions, Eurasian Studies; 18, p. 1-18, 2015. Ch o u k r o u n e L., “The Language XII (2014), Istituto per l’Oriente “C. of Rights and the Politics of Law: A. Nallino, Roma, p. 11-22, ISBN: Perspectives on China’s Last Legal 978-88-97622-20-8. Ditch Struggle”, International Journal EFEO for the Semiotic of Law, 2015. MASSOL F., JABOT F., MANEL Suganya ANANDAKICHENIN, S. and MUNOZ F., 2015. Étude Ch o u k r o u n e L., “The National “The ‘Sacred’ Hill in the Eyes of des réseaux en écologie, In: Sueur J. Treatment Standard in Indian and the Āvars and the Srivaiṣava (ed.). Analyse des réseaux sociaux Chinese Developing Asia International Commentators” in Journal of appliquée à l’éthologie et l’écologie, Investment Agreements”, Indian Vaishnava Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 Collection “Modélisations, simulations, Journal of International Economic Law, (2015), pp. 63-86. systèmes complexes”, Editions 2015. Matériologiques, Paris, p. 49-98, Valérie GILLET, “Note on a ISBN: 978-2-919694-98-3. HIMANSHU, “NREGS in newly found Somāskandamūrti Rajasthan: Rationed Funds and their and Trimūrti from the Pallava RICHARD-FERROUDJI A., Allocation across Villages”, jointly Period”, in Cultural contours 2015. Les professionnels de la gestion with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and of History and Archaeology, In territoriale de l’eau : des médecins M R Sharan, Economic and Political honour of Snehasiri Prof. P Chenna de famille plutôt que des spécialistes Weekly, February 7th 2015. Reddy, vol. V (Art), K. Krishna pour soigner les milieux aquatiques, Naik & E. Siva Nagi Reddy (ed.), In: Arpin I., Bouleau G., Candau HIMANSHU “Do Bigha Zameen: Dispossessing the Farmer”, Geography B.R. Publishing Corporation, J. and Richard-Ferroudji A. (eds), pp. 368-372. Activités professionnelles à l’épreuve de and You, January-February 2015. l’environnement, Collection Le travail TELLE O., Géographie d’une S.A.S. SARMA, “Paḷivēta, or the en débats, Octarès, Toulouse, p. 189- maladie émergente en milieu urbain ‘Royal Hunt’, in Prescriptive Literature 207, ISBN: 9782366300390. endémique, le cas de la dengue à Delhi, and in Present-day Practice in Kerala” Cracow Indological Studies Inde, Cybergeo : European Journal of in , Vol. SEBASTIA B., 2015. Like an XVI (2014), pp. 289-314. Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua Geography [Online], Espace, Société, in Tamil Nadu as a healer and Territoire, document 718, http:// cybergeo.revues.org/26921, 2015. exorcist, In: Vargas-O’Bryan I. M. IFP and Xun Z. (eds), Disease, Religion VANDENBERGHE, F. In and Healing in Asia: Collaborations memoriam Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014). and Collisions, Routledge Studies BONHOMME V., CASTETS M., European Journal of Social Theory, v. MOREL J. and GAUCHEREL C., in Asian Religion and Philosophy, 18, p. 112-114, 2015. Routledge, London, p. 22-36, ISBN: 2015. Introducing the vectorial Kappa: 978-1-13-802365-9. VANDENBERGHE, F. A Sociologia An index to quantify congruence como uma Filosofia Prática e Moral between vectorial mosaics, Ecological VARREL A., 2015. Bangladesh, In: (e vice versa). Sociologias (UFRGS. Indicators, 57: 96-99, DOI:10.1016/j. Simon G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des migrations Impresso), v. 17, p. 60-109, 2015. ecolind.2015.04.007. internationales. Approche géohistorique, CHAVEZ-LARA C.M., ROY P.D., Armand Colin, Paris, p. 672-676. VANDENBERGHE, F. Derniers hommages à l’optimisme stratégique PÉREZ L., MUTHUSANKAR G. and VARREL A., LACROIX T. and d’Ulrich Beck (1944-1915). Revue du LEMUS NERI V.H., 2015. Ostracode PHILIPPE V., 2015. Inde, In: MAUSS Semestrielle, v. 45, p. 379- and C/N based paleoecological record Simon G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des 386, 2015. from Santiaguillo basin of subtropical migrations internationales. Approche Mexico over last 27 cal kyr BP, Revista géohistorique, Armand Colin, Paris, VANDENBERGHE, F. Mort Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 32 p. 678-690. d’un maître-penseur : Roy Bhaskar (1): 1-10.

19 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India DEARING J.A., ACMA B., BUB S., KENNEL P., FIORIO C. and VT: Ashgate, 2013), Food, Culture and ANUPAMA K. and [et al.], 2015. BORNE F., 2015. Supervised image Society, 18 (2) : 329-332. Social-ecological systems in the segmentation using Q-Shift Dual- Anthropocene: the need for integrating Tree Complex Wavelet Transform SRINIVASAN K., KANNAN M. social and biophysical records at regional coefficients with a texton approach, and NATRAJ M.V., 2015. Cūriyak scales, The Anthropocene Review, DOI: Pattern Analysis and Applications, kal, Kalkutirai, 3-20. 10.1177/2053019615579128. DOI: 10.1007/s10044-015-0491-1. VIOLLE C., CHOLER P., BOGRY DIEZ J.G., 2015. Costruire templi LE BEC J., COURBAUD B., LE B., MUNOZ F. and [et al.], 2015. per tessere reti. Una lettura socio- MOGUÉDEC G. and PÉLISSIER Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem spaziale della transizione urbana a R., 2015. Characterizing tropical tree science: Permanent grasslands as a Pondicherry, India meridionale (1960- species growth strategies: learning functional biogeography case study, 2014), Quaderni Storici. Special issue. from inter-individual variability and Science of The Total Environment, DOI: scale invariance, PLoS ONE, 10 (3): 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.141. GANESAN T., 2015. Lesser e0117028, DOI : 10.1371/journal. VOGT-SCHILB H., MUNOZ F., known Śaiva initiations : critical pone.0117028. edition of the Vijñānadīksa chapter RICHARD F. and SCHATZ B., 2015. of the hitherto unpublished MENZEL P., ANUPAMA K., Recent declines and range changes of Acintyaviśvasādākhyāgama, one of the BASAVAIAH N. and [et al.], 2015. orchids in Western Europe (France, agamas of the Śaivasiddhanta tradition The use of amino acid analyses in Belgium and Luxembourg), Biological and its brief presentation, Cracow (palaeo-) limnological investigations: Conservation, 190: 133-141, DOI : Indological studies, 16: 145-167. A comparative study of four Indian 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.05.002. lakes in different climate regimes, GAUCHEREL C., FRELAT R., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, CONFERENCE /SEMINAR LUSTIG A., ROUY B., CHÉRY Y. and 160: 25-37, DOI : 10.1016/j. HUBERT P., 2015. Time-frequency gca.2015.03.028. / WORKSHOP PAPERS analysis to profile hydrological (Published and Unpublished) regimes: application to Haiti, NAGARAJAN R., JONATHAN M.P., Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI : ROY P.D., MUTHUSANKAR G. CSH 10.1080/02626667.2015.1006231. and LAKSHUMAN C., 2015. Decadal evolution of a spit in the Baram river BHANDARI P., ‘Matrimonial GUÉRIN I., mouth in eastern Malaysia, Continental VENKATASUBRAMANIAN G. Websites: Beyond the Love-Arranged Shelf Research, 105: 18-25, DOI : Marriage Divide’ at the Department of and KUMAR S., 2015. Debt Bondage 10.1016/j.csr.2015.06.006. and the Tricks of Capital, Economic & Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Political Weekly, 50 (26 & 27): 11-18. ROUANET H. and VARREL A., 2015. University of Delhi, March 2015. De Bangalore à Whitefield : trajectoire HENRY M., CIFUENTES JARA M., DE BERCEGOL, R. “Swachh et paysages d’une région urbaine en Bharat: waste renewal in Delhi ?”, RÉJOU-MÉCHAIN M. and etc., Inde, In: Oliveau S. (ed), Dossier Le 2015. Recommendations for the use CoRP, SCI-FI, Center For Policy monde indien : populations et espaces, Research, February 2015. of tree models to estimate national Géoconfluences [site web], Mis en ligne forest biomass and assess their le 24 mars 2015. DE BERCEGOL, R. “Changement uncertainty, Annals of Forest Science, Climatique et rejets urbains : le cas DOI : 10.1007/s13595-015-0465-x. ROY P.S., BEHERA M.D., MURTHY de Delhi”, Colloque des Umifres sur M.S.R., RAMESH B.R. and etc., HENRY M., RÉJOU-MÉCHAIN le Changement Climatique, Istanbul, 2015. New vegetation type map of India 14/02/2015. M., CIFUENTES JARA M. and etc., prepared using satellite remote sensing: 2015. An overview of existing and Comparison with global vegetation DE BERCEGOL, R. “Infrastructure promising technologies for national maps and utilities, International Journal in Transition, the case of Waste and forest monitoring, Annals of Forest of Applied Earth Observation and sanitation sectors in New Delhi” Science, DOI : 10.1007/s13595-015- Geoinformation, 39: 142-159. in Neues aus der umwelttechnik und 0463-z. infrastrukturplanning, Darmstadt, SEBASTIA B., 2015. Book Review 19/01/2015. KANNAN M. and PRAKASH of “Geographies of Race and Food” Etuvār leve (1965-2008) A., 2015. , edited by Rachael Slocum and Arun CHOUKROUNE L., “Investment Kalkutirai, 146-148. Saldanha (Farnham and Burlington, Regulation and the Rule of Law”,

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21 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India EFEO Sanskrit Conference organised by the 15)” and was an examiner in Sanskrit Studies Centre, Silpakorn “vyakaranasastra”. International University, Bangkok, Thailand and the International Association of Sanskrit S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA Dominic GOODALL participated in Studies (IASS), which was held in participated in a Sāśtra sadas the 16th World Sanskrit Conference Bangkok from 28 June–2 July 2015. (traditional conference) entitled organised by the Sanskrit Studies “Śāśradāpīṭha-saparikara-advaita- National Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, vedāntasabhā” organised by the Thailand and the International Sringeri Saradāpītham in Parimella Suganya ANANDAKICHENIN from 23 to 25 March 2015 where he Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS), gave a lecture entitled “The Role which was held in Bangkok from 28 discussed the topic “Prātipadikārtha of Śrī in the Five Commentaries liṅgaparimāṇavacanamātre prathamā June–2 July 2015 where he presented rd on Tiruvāymoḻi 6.10.10” in the 3 (Pā. sū. 2.3.56) Iti sūtrārthavichāraḥ”. two papers: “Further thoughts on the NETamil Workshop organised by the transmission of the Raghuvaṃśa” EFEO, Pondicherry, from 2 to 13 S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA and “Reinterpreting the invocation February 2015. participated in a Sāśtra sadas stanzas that allude, punningly, to (traditional conference) conducted by tantric notions in some tenth-century S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA participated the Andhrapradesh-Kanchi-kamakoti- Cambodian inscriptions”. in a Sastra sadas (traditional charitable Trust in Vijayawada from 20 conference) entitled “Puratah sabda to 25 April 2015 where he discussed the S.A.S. SARMA was invited to sadhutva vicarah”, organized by the participate in the VISCOM Conference topic “Karmavat karmaṇā tūlyakriyaḥ Saradapeetham from 28 to 30 January iti sūtrārthavicāraḥ”. entitled “Tantric Communities in 2015 in Vishakhapatnam. He also Context: Sacred Secrets and Public participated in the Agnishtomayaga, S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA Rituals” held at the Institute for the a traditional ritual in Rajamundri, participated in a Sāśtra sadas Cultural and Intellectual History of Andhra Pradesh, from 31 January to 4 (traditional conference) conducted Asia, Vienna, from 5 to 7 February February 2015. by the Sri chandrashekharendra­ 2015 where he presented a paper s a r a s v a t i s v ā m i n ā m on “Mātṛtantra texts of South India S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA jantyutsavasabhā & Kanchi- with special reference to the worship participated in a Sastra sadas shankaramatham in Kanchipuram of Rurujit in Kerala and to three (traditional conference) entitled from 2 to 3 June 2015, different communities associated with “Śrīvijayendrasarasvati svāminām where he discussed the topic this worship”. jayantīsabha” in Kancipuram on 17 “Dakṣiṇottarābhyāmatasuc (pā. sū. February 2015 where he discussed 5-3-28) iti sūtrārthavicāraḥ”. S.A.S. SARMA participated in the the topic “Dakṣiṇottarābhyām atasuch 16th World Sanskrit Conference (pā. sū. 5-3-28) iti sūtrārthavichāraḥ”. S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA was organised by the Sanskrit Studies invited to participate in the Workshop Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA participated of E-PG [Electronic Post-Graduate] Thailand and the International in a Sastra sadas (traditional Pathashala of UGC [University Grants Association of Sanskrit Studies conference) entitled “Śrī Maddulapalli Commision] and MHRD [Ministry for (IASS), which was held in Bangkok Mānikya sāstri 98 jayantyutsava Human Resources and Development] from 28 June–2 July 2015 where he chatusshāstramahāsabhā” in Project for Creation of E-Content for presented two papers: “Mātṛtantra Dvarakanagar-Srisankaramatham, PG [Post-Graduate] Courses as a texts of South India with special Visakhapattanam, from 4 to 6 March “Team Leader” by Rashtriya Sanskrit reference to the Mātṛsadbhāvatantra” 2015, where he discussed the topic Vidyapeetha, Tirupati from 8 to 11 (in the Agama and Tantra Section) “Samāsācca tadvishayāl (pā. sū. June 2015. and “Particular rites described in the 5.3.106) iti sūtrārthavicāraḥ”. Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra, and customs S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA followed by Āgniveśyagṛhyasūtra S.L.P. Anjaneya SARMA went was invited as an examiner brahmins” (in the Vedic Section). to Tenali from 13 to 17 March in vyākaraṇaśāstra at the 2015 to participate in a Sastra sadas Kañcikāmakoṭi Pīṭha Śāstra R. SATHYANARAYANAN (traditional conference) conducted Samvardhinī Sabhā, Tenali from presented a paper entitled “Shaiva by the Sivasundara sadguru 25 to 29 June 2015. Manipravalam? Commentaries in a sastrasabha. He gave a lecture blend of Sanskrit and Tamil on Shaiva entitled “Gauṇamukhyayoḥ mukhye Indra MANUEL was invited to give Sanskrit Works” in the 16th World kāryasaṃpratyayaḥ (paribhāsha. special lectures on “Tolkāppiyam

22 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India Poruḷatikāram and Various trends in by the EFEO, Pondicherry, from 2 to Seminar on Scientific Knowledge the Research on Sangam Literature” to 13 February 2015. Systems in Ancient Sanskrit Texts the students and faculty of the Central Traditions and Innovations” organised University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, T. RAJARETHINAM gave a by the Centre for Vedanta Studies, on 5 and 6 March 2015. lecture entitled “Grammar of Akam University of Kerala, Trivandrum, and Tolkāppiyam ” in the National from 21 to 23 January 2015. Indra MANUEL gave two Conference “Grammatical Traditions endowment lectures entitled “The of India and Tolkāppiyam” organised R. SATHYANARAYANAN gave a Architechtonics of Puṟanāṉũṟu” and by the International Institute of Tamil lecture entitled “Prayascittasamuccaya “The special features of Patiṟṟuppattu” Studies in Chennai on 17 and 18 Tamil Commentary” in the 3rd at the Bharatidasan University, Trichy, February 2015. NETamil Workshop organised by the on 17 March 2015. EFEO, Pondicherry, from 2 to 13 T. RAJARETHINAM was invited to February 2015. Indra MANUEL was invited to give a lecture entitled “Tolkāppiyam present a paper on “The Contribution akam theory and Līlathilakam, a R. SATHYANARAYANAN was of Foreign Scholars to Akam malayalam grammar” in the National invited to give a course on the reading Theory - A critical Review” at the Seminar on “Classical Aspects of of grantha and Telugu manuscripts three-day International Seminar Tamil and Malayalam Languages” from 13 to 14 February 2015 during on Reconstructing Classical Tamil organised by the Central Institute the 21-day workshop on “Research Traditions: Global Quest (Seminar of Classical Tamil, Chennai, and the Methodology, Manuscriptology & in honour of Prof. Rev. Fr. Xavier Department of Tamil, University of Textual Criticism” organised by the Thaninayagam and Bishop Robert Kerala in Trivandrum, from 18 to 20 Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Deemed Caldwell) organised by the Central March 2015. University, Guruvayur Campus, Kerala. University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, from 25 to 27 March 2015. T. RAJESWARI was invited by G. VIJAYAVENUGOPAL gave a the International Institute of Tamil lecture entitled “Old Commentary M. PRABHAKARAN gave a lecture Studies, Chennai, to give a lecture of Purananuru” in the 3rd NETamil entitled “Commentary idioms” in the entitled “Edition of Kalittokai Workshop organised by the EFEO, 3rd NETamil Workshop organised by Manuscripts and Kalittokai Edition Pondicherry, from 2 to 13 February the EFEO, Pondicherry, from 2 to 13 and its Textual Variant” in a workshop 2015. February 2015. on Manuscripts of Caṅka Ilakkiyam and the Editions of Early Stage held G. VIJAYAVENUGOPAL gave a M. PRABHAKARAN gave a on 3 January 2015. lecture entitled “Tolkāppiyam in the lecture entitled “Pan Indian Tamil background of Indian Grammatical Prosody” in the National Conference T. RAJESWARI was invited to Theories” in the National Conference “Grammatical Traditions of India conduct a one-day teaching session on “Grammatical Traditions of India and Tolkāppiyam” organised by manuscripts of the Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu at the and Tolkāppiyam” organised by the International Institute of Tamil manuscript workshop “Pāṭavēṟupāṭu the International Institute of Tamil Studies in Chennai on 17 and 18 Nōkkil Pattupāṭṭu ōlaiccuvaṭikaḷum Studies in Chennai on 17 and 18 February 2015. Patippum” organised by the U. V. February 2015. Swaminatha Iyer Library from 19 to M. PRABHAKARAN was invited 28 February 2015 in Chennai. G. VIJAYAVENUGOPAL gave a to give a lecture entitled “Tamil lecture on “Pondicherry through malayalam Pāttu marapu (Tradition S.A.S. SARMA gave a lecture its History – Inscriptions” at the of Pāttu)” in the National Seminar entitled “Vaisnava devotional Pondicherry Heritage Festival Program on “Classical Aspects of Tamil and literature in Malayalam: Jnanappana organised at the Pondicherry Centre Malayalam Languages” organised by and Harināmakīrtanam” in the 3rd of the EFEO on 28 February 2015. the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, NETamil Workshop organised by the Chennai and the Department of Tamil, EFEO, Pondicherry, from 2 to 13 University of Kerala in Trivandrum, February 2015. IFP from 18 to 20 March 2015. R. SATHYANARAYANAN International T. RAJARETHINAM gave a presented a paper on “The method of lecture entitled “Tolkappiyam preserving natural resources in Sanskrit GANESAN T., 2015. Sri Krishna naccinarkkiniyar urai —Akattinaiyiyal” Literature with special reference to the earliest Saiva: revisiting the in the 3rd NETamil Workshop organised Arthaśāstra” in the International Mahabharata, Paper presented at

23 Bulletin of the French Research Institutes in India the “Xème Journée Monde Iranien, GANESAN T., 2015. Buddhism from Tamil and held at the Tanjavur Tamil Mondes Iranien et Indien”, Unité the standpoint of Saivasiddhanta, Paper University, Tanjavur on 12th February mixte de Recherche 7528 CNRS, 28 presented at the UGC sponsored 2015. May, 2015. seminar on Understanding the Contemporaneity of Nagarjuna’s RAVICHANDRAN P. and NATH CD., PÉLISSIER R., Philosophy in the global context, NARENTHIRAN R., 2015. BURSLEM DFRP., MUNOZ F., Acharya Nagarjuna University, Exploratory study of Indian languages BARATHAN N., 2015. Intrinsic and Guntur, January, 2015. information retrieval in online extrinsic influences on tropical tree growth bibliographical databases, In: S. ring formation. Oral presentation at GANESAN T., 2015. From Sanskrit Thanushkodi (ed.). Proceedings of 4th International conference of Asian to Tamil: Saiva texts through tamil the National Seminar on Role of Dendrochronological Association adaptations, Paper presented at the LIS Professionals in Developing held at Kathmandu, Nepal, during National Seminar on Translations and Information Literacy Skills in 9-12 March 2015. Adaptations of Sanskrit Literature, the Digital Era, 19-20 March, held at the Sree Sankaracharya 2015, Department of Library and VARREL A., 2015. Tapping the University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, Information Science, Alagappa diaspora money: the dynamics of the February, 2015. University, Karaikkudi, p. 334-337, India real estate corporate sector through ISBN: 978-81-922221-5-8. the transnational lens, American GANESAN T., 2015. Finding the Association of Geography Annual fundamental import of the Veda-s: SARAVANAN G.and RAJAN Conference, Chicago, April 21-25th, Study based on some early Vedic V.R., 2015. A Ten-year Bibliometric 2015. commentaries, Paper presented at Analysis of the journal “Frontiers in the Seminar on Relevance of the Ecology and the Environment (2003- National Veda-s in the perspective of global 12) [CD-ROM], In: Nagarajan M. knowledge systems, held at Gurukul (ed.). Proceedings of the National ASWATHY S. and SARAVANAN G., Kangri Visvavidyalaya, Haridwar, 13- Seminar on Advancement of Science 2015. Authorship pattern in cryogenics 15, March, 2015. through Scientometrics, 27 - 28 research as reflected in “Cryogenics” March, 2015, Department of Library Journal, In: Fazlur Rahman S.A. and GANESAN T., 2015. Critical and Information Science, Annamalai [et al.] (eds), Proceedings of the edition of Sanskrit texts on the basis University, Annamalainagar, p. 366- National Conference on Innovative of manuscripts, Two special lectures 373, ISBN: 978-81-922221-5-8. Librarianship in the Knowledge delivered at the Workshop on Research Society : Enhancing Teaching, Methodology, Manuscriptology & Learning and Research (NCILKS), Textual Criticism, held at the Rashtriya THESES 14-16, May 2015, Organized by Sanskrit Sansthan Deemed University, Vankatram Learning Centre, Sri Guruvayur campus, Kerala, February, IFP Krishna College of Engineering 2015. and Technology, Coimbatore and RAMESHKUMAR K., 2015. BORDAGI J., 2015. De la ville Jointly with Indian Academic Library Different Techniques of Digital décidée à la ville vécue. Emergence et Association (IALA), Kuniamuthur, Documentation, Paper presented at croissance des petites villes indiennes Coimbatore, p. 324-331, ISBN: 978- the workshop on “Tamil Computer [PhD Thesis], Université d’Avignon, 93-83069-21-7. and Internet” held at the Kanchi Dirigé par François Moriconi, financé GANESAN T., 2015. Vritti and Maamunivar Puducherry Postgraduate par l’IFP et réalisé dans le cadre du Vyapti in Saivasiddhanta philosophy: Centre, Pondicherry on 20th February programme SUBURBIN co-dirigé par Sivagrayogi’s interpretation, Paper 2015. Eric Denis. presented at the 47th session of the All RAMESHKUMAR K., 2015. MOHAPATRA P.P., 2015. India Oriental Conference, Gauhati Digitization of Palm Leaf Manuscripts, Palynological and Rare Earth Element University, January, 2015. Paper presented at the workshop on (REE) - speciation studies on Quaternary GANESAN T., 2015. Sri Krishna the “Manuscripts and Editions of Classical sediments from the Cauvery delta, South greatest and the earliest Saiva, Paper Tamil Grammar” jointly organized India, Department of Earth Sciences, presented at the 47th session of the All by the Department of Manuscripts, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India Oriental Conference, Gauhati Tanjavur Tamil University, Tanjavur ix, 183 p., Advisor: P. Singh, K. University, January, 2015. and the Central Institute of Classical Anupama.

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