People – Deceased

Indologist, vedic scholar, grammarian and philologist, Michel Angot has trained and worked both in India and in France (Sorbonne). His training in India included learning Veda recitation and traditional grammar with local scholars (pandits). Some of his more specialistic areas of expertise are in the domain of svara (sanskrit tonality, often translated as accent system), Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali, Yoga Sūtra and other yoga-related texts, including the Yogayājñavalkya and the Haṭhapradīpikā.

 (1948-2011) Our esteemed contributor Christian Bouy passed away on 3 November 2011. Prof Kellens, Director of the Institut d’Études Indiennes at the Collège de France as at 2014, wrote this

Maya Warrier was a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester until her retirement in 2020. Her research explored popular Hindu traditions in modern transnational contexts. Her last research projects focused on Ayurveda (the ancient Indian system of medicine) in the UK.