Claude Arpi

Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, historian and tibetologist^[1][2] born in 1949 in Angoulême^[3] who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects (Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999),^[4] and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.

Claude Arpi is the director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville.^[5] The 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated the Pavilion, with Claude Arpi in attendance, on 20 January 2009.^[6]

Bibliography

• India and her neighbourhood: a French observer's views Har-Anand Publications, 2005 ISBN 81-241-1097-2, ISBN 978-81-241-1097-3
• Born in Sin : The Panchsheel Agreement, The Sacrifice of Tibet, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2004
• Long and dark shall be the night : the Karma of Tibet, Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2002
• The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects (Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999)
• Il y a 50 ans : Pondichéry, Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2004
• La politique française de Nehru, La fin des comptoirs français en Inde (1947–1954),^[7] Éditions Auroville Press, Auroville, 2002
• Tibet, le pays sacrifié, préfacé par le Dalaï Lama, Calmann-Lévy, 2000 ISBN 2-7021-3132-8.

References

1. Sudha Ramachandran, China toys with India's border, 27 June 2008, "Claude Arpi, a French Tibetologist living in India"
2. Claude Arpi, Quotation: "Journaliste et historien, Claude Arpi vit en Inde depuis plus de 30 ans dans la cité internationale d'Auroville où il est directeur du Pavillon Tibétain."
3. India. "Claude Arpi". Blogger.com. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
4. The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects, Book Review
5. Jaia Bharati (29 April 1954). "Claude Arpi". Jaia-bharati.org. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
6. Dalai Lama Blesses Auroville Tibetan Pavilion, Phayul.com, 20 January 2009.
7. "La politique française de Nehru". Jaia-bharati.org. Retrieved 12 May 2011.

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