Set up under the conditions of the Treaty of Cession of French Territories in India, the French Institute of Pondicherry was introduced on 20 March 1955. It was at first connected with, under the administration of its first chief (Jean Filliozat), in the investigation of Indian human advancement and culture, and all the more especially in the history and the religions of South India. During the 1960s, assuming control over a first research cell made at the root of the Institute, a Department of Ecology was made to gather data on the conditions and advancement of the earth in South India (vegetation, soil, environmental change, and so forth.) with its emphasis on the Western Ghats, one of the world's 34 hotspots for biodiversity. With the setting up of the division of Social Sciences in 1988, the Institute additionally stretched out its enthusiasm to the development and elements of Indian culture. The advancement of research and the need to help it with current philosophies and hardware prompted the production of a Laboratory of Geomatics (LIAG) during the 1990s, later named Department of GeoSpatial Monitoring and Information Technology (GeoSMIT) in 2017. With it, the Institute procured current instruments for the portrayal and examination of the connections in reality between these substances and their condition. The establishment of the LIAG as a typical instrument enormously helped in distinguishing new territories for research. The IFP additionally has a multidisciplinary library. This Center holds specific information of the exploration directed at the IFP, which is enlarged each year through a dynamic obtaining arrangement. With around 70,000 books, the library is available to people in general inside a lot of guidelines surrounded by the IFP.
Institute Type | Private College |
Name of the Institute | French Institute of Puducherry - FIP |
Location | Pondicherry, Puducherry |
Established | 1955 |
Affiliated | Pondicherry University - PU |