Ariel, Édouard (1818-1854)
Édouard Ariel (1818-1854), a colonial administrator in Pondicherry, in the French Settlements in India, built up in a few years a reasoned collection of Tamil manuscripts, which, by its variety and the age of its manuscri...
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Administrators and military men
A career with the French East India Company meant being part of a corporation of traders. One is almost astonished by the narrowness of the administrators' backgrounds, which were largely Parisian. At the beginning, speci...
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Catholics missions
Catholic missions in India in the early modern period were initially extensions of both the European mercantile and colonial expansion.
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