Revue historique de l'Inde française. PER 36

Alternative Title

Revue historique de l'Inde française
Revue historique de l'État de Pondichéry

Creator

Société de l'Histoire de l'Inde Française

Publisher

Many of the volumes seem to have been published by the SHIF in collaboration with Parisian publishers and Pondicherry's Public Library. They were all printed in Pondicherry

Date of Publication

1916/1955

Content Type

Periodical
Text

Language

French

Script

Latin

Description

Scope and content: The Revue historique de l'Inde française (or Historical Journal of French India) was launched in 1916. Till then the Société de l'Histoire de l'Inde Française (SHIF) was only publishing books. A general meeting of all its members in April 1916 decided that a half-yearly journal would be published altenately with the publication of the monographs. An introduction to the SHIF that appears at the beginning of the Revue historique vol. 1 explains the objectives of the journal: “This journal should normally publish original articles, pertaining mainly to the history of French India, but when necessary slightly encroaching on the history of India herself, and may also publish ancient documents which are too short to be made into special editions.” (RHIF Vol. 1 (1916-1917), p. 8). Many eminent historians contributed to the journal, among them G. Jouveau-Dubreuil, Alfred Martineau, Edmond Gaudart, Yvonne Gaebelé, A. Singaravélou, Charles Gravelle, Gnanou Diagou etc. Some of their longer articles, serialized in the Revue, were later brought out by the SHIF as separate fascicules. The annual subscription rate of the 1st issue of the journal was 25 Francs. Although the statutes of the SHIF stated that the monographs and journal would be published alternatively every 3 months, which effectively meant that there would be one issue of the Revue historique every semester, the frequency of the journal was actually quite irregular: volumes 1 to 5 came out between 1916 and 1922, vol. 6 in 1936, vol. 7 in 1948 and volumes 8 and 9 in 1952 and 1955 respectively. Volume 8 was the last to be titled Revue historique de l'Inde française. Volume 9, published after the merger of Pondicherry with the Indian Union, appeared as the Revue historique de l'Etat de Pondichéry. Subsequently, for unknown reasons, the publication of the Revue was suspended. It reappeared only in 1972, under the name of Revue historique de Pondichéry. The periodicity of the journal began to be almost regular, as an annual volume, with the Volume 15. From Vol. 10 onwards it became trilingual (French, English, and Tamil), although volumes 15 to 17 were exclusively in English. It continues to be published to this day. The library of the French Institute of Pondicherry has the complete run of this journal.

Extent and Format of Original Material

9 volumes, with height ranging from 23.5 cm to 25.5 cm
The volumes appear at irregular intervals. They do not contain issues. Only the years are mentioned. The first volume was issued in 4 parts (2 semesters each for 1916 and 1917). However, there was no semester-wise arrangement thereafter. All the volumes were brought out as single fascicules, except the volume 4 which was issued in 2 parts.

EAP Project Number

EAP_191

Collection Name

Periodicals of French India (1823/1954)

Level

Series

Series Number

Series 4

Series Name

Series 4: Revue historique de l'Inde française
Series 4: Revue historique de l'État de Pondichéry

Reference

EAP191-1-4
Call no.: PER 36

Contributor

British Library (Endangered Archives Programme)
Institut Français de Pondichéry (Owner of the original material)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Digitalized by)

Location of Original Material

Institut Français de Pondichéry

Extent of Digital Material

9 electronic folders containing 3788 TIFF images; 213 GB in total

Date Modified

2010-12/2011-01

Key

eap191_000150

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Revue historique de l'Inde française. PER 36, in Digital Collections, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Periodicals of French India, consulted on July, 7th 2025, https://digitalcollections.ifpindia.org/s/printed-materials/item/369294