Alain Daniélou, born at Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris) October, 4th 1907, died 1994 in Switzerland, was a French historian and Indologist. He is the author of over 30 books on Indian music and culture. He received several prices for his work on music. He was also a photographer and painter. He studied Indian classical music in Benares with Shivendranath Basu and played the Veena. He also translated some works of Swami Karpatri. He is best remembered for his important work on classical Indian music. Neuilly-sur-Seine is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine département in France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Indologist is a derivative of the word indology, which refers to study of India, particulary ancient India. ... Benares (also known as Banaras, Kashi, Kasi and Varanasi (वाराणसी)) is a Hindu holy city on the banks of the river Ganga or Ganges in the modern north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Woman playing the vina, by Raja Ravi Varma Veena (also spelled vina) is a stringed instrument used in Carnatic music. ... Indian music is: The music of India or Native American music This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Upon his wishes, Danielou, who spent 15 years in the holy town of Benares studying Hinduism and Sanskrit and took the name of Shiva Saran (the protege of the Hindu god Shiva), was cremated in Hindu fashion.
Danielou was one of the first Westerners to visit India's famed erotic temples in the village of Khajuraho.
Danielou took some 7,000 photographs of ancient and medieval Hindu temples from obscure places in central and eastern India and the desert state of Rajasthan, in the first such exercise of its kind.
The late AlainDanielou was a versatile and well-known Indian scholar.
Danielou's history of India was originally published in France in 1971.
He is highly critical, accusing Gandhi of a mystical sort of demagoguery that resulted in a new nation formed, "in the most disastrous way imaginable, leading to the partitioning of the country [into India and Pakistan], one of the greatest massacres in history...
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