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All works of Colette Caillat are characterized by great accuracy in philological matters, lucidity of exposition, and high sensibility to the texts.
Her researches on the vocabulary and on minute details of grammar were conceived as tools for understanding past Indian thinkers.
She has encouraged young researchers that had different interests in the large field of Indology.
She conceived indological research on an international basis, and was opposed to every form of nationalism, which turns often to chauvinism or sectarianism, she transmitted what she had received from her teachers and friends, because it remains the basis of every future progress in the understanding of the contribution of India to the universal culture.
While having strong convictions, and being quite sympathetic towards modern trends, Colette Caillat was both fair and friendly, and she never compromised firm ethical principles. These personal features explain her wide influence and her role in several academic institutions, learned journals and international committees; she served as treasurer of the InternationalAssociation for Sanskrit Studies (1977- 2000), and she was elected to the Presidency of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (1999- 2002).
International Indology has suffered a great loss by the demise of Prof. Dr. Colette Caillat, precisely on her eightysixth birthday, 15 January 2007.
Colette Caillat will be remembered for her numerous contributions which advanced and enriched the field of Indology for nearly four decades, and for her active encouragement of others in the field. She will be remembered as a human being of rare qualities, an energetic, lively and free individual who valued independence more than anything else, a true lady of the twentieth century.
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