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The French Institute of Pondicherry ((フランス語:Institut Français de Pondichéry)) UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE, is a French financially autonomous institution in Puducherry, India, under the joint supervision of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is a part of the network of 27 research centres connected with the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. It is also part of the research unit 3330 "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" of the CNRS, along with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in New Delhi. ==History== Established under the terms of the Treaty of Cession of French Territories in India, the French Institute of Pondicherry was inaugurated on 21 March 1955 under the name "Institut Français d'Indologie". It was engaged, under the leadership of its first director (Jean Filliozat), in the study of Indian civilization and culture, and more particularly in the history and the religions of South India. In the 1960s, a department of ecology was created to collect information on the conditions and evolution of the environment in South India (vegetation, soils, climate changes etc.) with its focus on the Western Ghats, one of the world’s 34 hotspots for biodiversity. With the setting up of the department of Social Sciences in the 1980s, the Institute also extended its interest to the evolution and dynamics of the Indian society. The Laboratory of Applied Informatics and Geomatics (LAIG) was set up in the 1990s. The institute has a Centre for Documentary Resources (CDR), which came into being as the result of a major restructuration of three research libraries in Pondicherry. The centre holds data of the research conducted at the IFP, which is augmented every year through an acquisition policy. The CDR is open to the public. “From Tradition to Modernity”, a document released on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the IFP, traces the history of the institute from its inception to the present. Dr.G.Thanikaimoni, whose scientific contributions have been recognised worldwide in the field of palynology finds mention in ''"Eminent Indian Botanists Past and Present"''. He directed the palynology department for over 20 years and assembled one of the largest collection pollen morphology slides in the world. Dr.Thanikaimoni was a proponent for the conservation and protection of mangroves in Asia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French Institute of Pondicherry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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