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14 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifp.3512
- isbn: 9788184701722
- eisbn: 9791036549885
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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François Gros, « Agastya's shift from North to South: the weight of the South in Indian studies », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.3512
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I - The truth behind a myth Sanskrit is a sovereign language that overleaps India and its boundaries. Yet when it comes to modern or medieval studies and their linguistic thresholds, neither history, anthropology, nor philology can disregard their own regionalism, landscapes or idioms. Researchers cannot escape the choice between the lure of the Subcontinent's North and the magnetic pull of its South. The North is blessed with more advantages: the prestige of a capital that has arisen from it...