History of India and Greater India

2009/01/01 by Gérard Fussman · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Geography #History #Indian History and Philosophy #Indian and Buddhist Studies #Political science #South Asian Studies and Conflicts

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Abstract

Professor Anna-Maria Quagliotti and Professor Gérard Fussman The College de France chair of indology is called, during the time of my tenure, “chaire d’Histoire du monde indien”. “Monde indien” is a French rendering of Anglo-Indian “Greater India”, a concept not too much different from Sheldon Pollock’s expression: “the Sanskrit cosmopolis”, which refers to a set of countries whose political divisions cannot hide the much more important fact that all of them have or had at at a time a culture...

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