26 Jun 2007

Institut Francais de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP)
IFP, Pondicherry, India
Self-description: "The IFP, research center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs carries out research expertise and training missions in South and South-East Asia in the fields of Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology."
Site contents: * The Institute (IFP in images, Staff, Partners, Activity Reports, Links); * Research; * Resources (Geomatics and Applied Informatics Laboratory, Library, Publications, Manuscripts [A collection of palm leaf manuscripts on South Indian Sivaism (the largest collection in the world of texts on Saivasiddhanta) - ed.], Photo Archives [136 000 photographs of temples, buildings and statuary of South India, some of which have since disappeared.- ed.], Map archives [Nearly 3,000 topographic maps and around 500 thematic maps on India and South and Southeast Asian countries - ed.]; * News; * Practical; * Just published; * Focus on (Scientific News, Publications IFP 2003-2007, Welcome / Goodbye; * Search.
URL http://www.ifpindia.org/-en-.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/* /http://www.ifpindia.org/
Link reported by: IFP Info (info--at--ifpindia.org), forwarded by h-net list for asian history and culture (h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt./Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000 [in fact, 320]