Guy Albert Deleury is an Indianist , scholar of Marathi literature , writer and translator specializing in India . He was a member of the Society of Jesus from 1943 to 1973.

Biography

He left Marseilles in 1948 2 after his degree in philosophy and settled in India. In 1953, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Poona , in the state of Maharashtra with a thesis on the Hindu pilgrimage of Krishna at Pandharpur  . There he became familiar with Hindu culture . This later inspired his thought and his literary work, which included many works, including a novel 3 . In 1967, he participated in the reception in Poona of a group of French people who came to reinforce their knowledge of Indian culture by immersing themselves in the daily life of the inhabitants of this city 4. He returned to France in 1973 2 after thirty years spent in India. The following year, he left the Jesuit order, and therefore devoted himself to books and programs on the meeting of civilizations 

Works

(in) The Cult of Vithoba , Poona, Deccan College,1960, 224  p.
Reborn in India , 1976.
The Hindu Model: essay on the structures of the civilization of India yesterday and today ( pref.  by Roger Garaudy ), Paris, Hachette, coll.  "Time and Men",1978, 365  p.
Reed. Paris, Kailash Editions , 2006 ( ISBN  978-2-842-68143-2 )
Flourishing India. Anthology of French Travelers (1750-1820) , Robert Laffont, Coll. “Books”, 1991. Republished in 2003 under the title Le voyage en Inde. Anthology of travelers, French (1750-1820) , Laffont, Coll. “Books”, 2003, xv+1064 p.
The Great Myths of India or the Footprint of the Turtle , Paris, Fayard, 1992.
The Guardian of the Ganges , 1994.
At the peril of religions , 1997.
Gandhi , 1997.
India, rebel continent , 2000.

Translations

Toukaram ( transl.  from Marathi , presented and commented on by Guy Deleury), Psaumes dupilgrim , Paris, Paris, Gallimard;, coll.  “Unesco of Representative Works. Indian series. Knowledge of the Orient,1989( 1st ed  . 1956), 286  p. ( ISBN  2-070-71789-5 )
Namdev ( transl.  from Marathi , commented by Guy Deleury), Tailor's Psalms or the Religion of Deep India , Paris, Gallimard, coll.  “Knowledge of the Orient. Indian series”,2003, 286  p. ( ISBN  978-2-070-76918-6 )