The Scientific advisory board

Members are appointed and meetings convened and co-chaired by Laurence Engel (BnF Chair) and Kapil Raj (EHESS).

For the BnF:

Ophélie Ramonatxo, Delegate for International Relations.

Members on account of their scientific expertise concerning collections bearing on the region's history and heritage :

• the Head of Litterature and Art division
• the Head of the Oriental Manuscript section,
• the Head of the History, Philosophy and Human sciences division.

For the partner institutions :

• Achal Pandya, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA)
• Soline Lau-Suchet, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC)
• François-Xavier André, Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
• Caroline Riberaigua, Institut d'études indiennes du Collège de France
• Vincent Lefèvre, Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet (MNAAG)
• Blandine Ripert, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)

Nine research specialists appointed on account of their scientific expertise :

• Kapil Raj (EHESS)
• Nalini Balbir (EPHE)
• Samuel Berthet (Alliance française d'Hyderabad)
• Bhaswati Bhattacharya (Center for Modern Indian Studies)
• Emmanuel Francis (CNRS, CEIAS)
• Dhir Sarangi (Center for French & Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Kavita Singh (School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Raphaël Malangin (UMR TEMOS 9016)
• Inès Zupanov (CNRS, EHESS, Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi)