The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
From 1969 until his death in 2019, S. Sambandhaśivācārya worked at the French Institute of Pondicherry in the project of critically editing Śaiva literature. Coming from a family of Śaiva priests well-versed in the domain of temple rituals, and with a long experience in reading various ancient scripts, he made innumerable significant contributions, particularly in the preparation of the first critical editions of ground-breaking theological works such as Rāmakaṇṭha’s commentaries on the Mataṅgapārameśvara, Sārdhatriśatikālottara, and āgamas such as the Rauravottara, Ajita, Sūkṣmāgama and Dīptāgama.