India

Projects and collections

 

France-sOUTH aSIA dIGITAL lIBRARY
Indian and Persian paintings, Prints and Photography Department, BnF
 
The France - South Asia digital library looks back at the history of representations and relations between France and South Asian countries, particularly India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. As part of the Shared Heritage collection, it brings together documents that bear witness to mutual representations, perceptions and understandings over centuries of exchange.
 
Indian treasures at the BnF 
Frontispiece illustration from a Jain manuscript dated 1544 (Sanskrit 745), Manuscripts Department, BnF
 
Take a look at the Indian collections in the BnF’s magazine, Chroniques, which show how the Library is always opening up to new cultures. (In French)
 
THE INDO-PERSIAN MINIATURES OF THE GENTIL COLLECTION
Collection of miniatures. Historical subjects from Persia, Prints and Photography Department, BnF
 
This session in the ‘Treasures of Richelieu’ series presents the art of Indo-Persian miniatures through the collection of Colonel Jean-Baptiste Gentil (1726-1799), who lived in northern India for many years. Discover his collection, which includes a large number of paintings from various Indo-Persian schools, as well as illuminated manuscripts in Persian and Sanskrit.
In French