[INDOLOGY] New publication

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Felicitations to the editors, publishers, and of course to the one who is
felicitated in the volume !
It would be useful if the readers of this list receive a Table of Contents
of the volume...
With best regards,
Jan Houben

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 00:44, Kie Pue via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the Felicitation volume
> for Nalini Balbir, which appeared as volume 29 of the series Studia
> Indologica Universitatis Halensis.
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> Jérôme Petit / Georges-Jean Pinault (Eds)
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> PRAŚASTI
> Studies in Indology Presented to Nalini Balbir by Colleagues, Students and
> Friends
> This volume comprises a collection of articles in honor of Professor
> Nalini Balbir, who turns seventy in 2025. The thirty-one contributions in
> English, French and German paint a portrait of Balbir. Some are authored by
> colleagues and friends with whom she worked throughout her academic career,
> others by junior and senior scholars who were her students, or who
> collaborated with her on research projects. The main topics that have
> occupied Balbir at the different stages of her career are represented,
> including Sanskrit, Middle Indic and Pali philology, Jainism, the history
> of Indian studies, manuscript studies and contemporary Indian literature.This
> volume comprises a collection of articles in honour of Professor Nalini
> Balbir, who turns seventy in 2025. The thirty-one contributions in English,
> French and German paint a portrait of Balbir. Some are authored by
> colleagues and friends with whom she worked throughout her academic career,
> others by junior and senior scholars who were her students, or who
> collaborated with her on research projects. The main topics that have
> occupied Balbir at the different stages of her career are represented,
> including Sanskrit, Middle Indic and Pali philology, Jainism, the history
> of Indian studies, manuscript studies and contemporary Indian literature.These
> contributions are preceded by a comprehensive bibliography of Balbir’s
> work. Her scholarship has many facets, covering nearly the whole of
> Indology, and involving fieldwork in India, research in libraries, archives
> and museums in many countries, as well as participation in international
> conferences. The introduction to the volume retraces the brilliant academic
> career of the honorand, who obtained a position as Professor of Indology
> in 1988 at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where she taught
> until her retirement in 2022. In 2000, she was also appointed as Professor
> of Middle Indic Philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE),
> Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques. The transmission of
> knowledge and expertise was one of her major longstanding commitments. The
> ample Tabula Gratulatoria and the list of her awards testify to Balbir’s
> international renown as scholar, teacher and mentor.This publication has
> been made possible through grants obtained from several institutions, which
> are gratefully acknowledged: the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris
> Sciences et Lettres), the GREI research team in Indian studies in Paris
> (Groupe de Recherches en Études Indiennes, EA 2021, EPHE and University
> Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the Institute of Jainology in London.
>
> Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis | Volume 291st edition 2025hardcover,
> thread stitched, 616 pagesISBN 978-3-86977-292-9
>
> The book can be ordered from the publisher
> https://uvhw.de/studia-indologica/product/250429_08_292-9.html
> or via booksellers (except Amazon)
>
> With kind regards,
> Petra Kieffer-Pülz
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*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

*johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>*

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