Le catalogue des Éditions de l'EFEO, riche d'environ 900 titres, propose des publications portant sur l'Asie, depuis l'Inde jusqu'au Japon, et couvrant un large spectre disciplinaire en sciences humaines et sociales (archéologie, histoire, anthropologie, littératures, philologie, etc.).
Ces publications, si elles s'adressent d'abord à la communauté scientifique, intéressent également un public attiré par les civilisations et sociétés d'Asie.
Ancient Fortifications in the Tamil Country as Recorded in Eighteenth-Century French Plans
Collection : Collection Indologie
Numéro de collection: 120
Édition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Année de parution: 2012
Statut : Disponible
30,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855391281
ISSN : 0073-8352
Largeur : 21 cm
Hauteur : 28 cm
Poids : 0,6 kg
Nombre de pages : 142
Distributeur : EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org, distributeur online : scholarswithoutborders@gmail.com, distributeur Chennai : jibh.rkc@gmail.com
Géographie : Inde
Langue : Anglais
Lieu : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Description :
139 p., ISBN (IFP) : 978 81 8470 193 7
Résumé
Today, very few Indians know that, in the eighteenth century, the southern part of the peninsula was richly studded with fortifications, great and small, as most of them were dismantled by the British at the beginning of the nineteenth century. These strongholds, some of which had considerable administrative or political importance, were once crowded with large bodies of troops and resounded to the blaring noise of the guns; now they are completely abandoned and silent. In addition to this, temples, edifices dedicated to the service of gods, were also used as forts, though no vestiges of military structures are found around their enclosures today. Fortunately, eighteenth-century French engineers have drawn the plans of several of these defence works. These magnificent watercolour plans preserved in the French Archives are presented here: they illustrate in an extraordinarily precise and explicit manner the technological level of the South Indian fortifications and enable us to comprehend the role they played in the life of the Tamil Country.
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