14 | Prof. Michel Danino | Travellers’ accounts on Indian society:The French | 3 April 2017

French travellers to India, most of them from the seventeenth century onward, left testimonies often very different from those of other colonizing nations, with perhaps all the more empathy for India as France lost the political battle to Britain. Touching upon a few Jesuits and other early travellers, this lecture focuses on Pyrard de Laval, Anquetil-Duperron, Le Gentil and Sonnerat. French travellers in effect laid the foundations for France’s nineteenth-century school of Indology, the main channel of Indian influence on French thought and literature.
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[@franceleeparis37]

A true French intellectual… no waffle, pure knowledge… an asset to Indian academia ..🙂

[@ugc1784]

So much of a precious information on this country's astronomical as well astrological knowledge that we born indians hardly know about. And all that is being exhibited by Prof. Michel Danino, now undoubtedly a son of this soil.

[@soumyabanerjee6785]

Really admire the objective lecture by professor Danino

[@links3711]

You sir are a gem of India

[@skynet_cyberdyne_systems]

Very Informative ! Such a shame that there are only 10 or so students there to attend this lecture.

[@vidaripollen]

It's a confirmation. Higher the content,lower the audience.

[@samcohen5716]

Over 2000 views of CZcams, the metric that matters far more

[@franceleeparis37]

Information and knowledge is like a precious stone… only found by very few.🤔

[@marysylvie2012]

Wowwwwwwwww! Thank you so much, Michel Danino: vous êtes un puits de connaissances. I am a French traveller. I went to India many times and stayed there for months at a time. In fact, I am preparing to go back there soon. However, I have learned one thing while staying in India, and that is to not write about India. The Westerner cannot comprehend India completely and objectively. Let us say that, in my case, I bathed myself in the Indian sacred texts, had a romantic view of India, then I went there and it was a huge cultural shock. I see life where there is life. And whether Malraux wants it or not, I find that the Cross is a definite sign of life, a tree, as it were. A living tree at that. I am happy to be a Westerner. I am happy to live in America. I am happy to be French and American. I am happy to be able to take a plane and go where I please. As a woman, I am happy to dress as I please. As a historian, I need to go to India to feel the Indian air and to understand what could have happened.

[@sankyab9402]

This intellectual knowledge is not included in our textbooks.

[@franceleeparis37]

Always doubted the intentions of the French in Middle East and Asia, but this great lecture has convinced me that the French were truly seeking knowledge and wisdom… people who did not attend this or any of his other lectures missed an opportunity to hear one of the greatest man of knowledge in recent times… it’s like listening to Sir Issac Newton of history🙂

[@seemasunil9]

Such an informative and wonderful presentation

[@vasanthiarasu2313]

Very good lecture, inspiring 👏

[@ankithooda1536]

Very informative talk. Good to hear. May ur 'test life' be good Mr donino. 😁

[@govindarun1947]

12:05,
32:32 French replaced by English so why can't English be replaced now
40:18
59:10-59:55
1:27:32 wow