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'''Charlotte Vaudeville''' (1918 — 28 April 2006) was a French [[Indologist]], best known for her researches into the ''[[Bhakti movement|bhakti]]'' traditions and literature. Her treatises on the medieval saint [[Kabir]] have been lauded. She retired as a professor at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 1988.

==Life and career==
Charlotte Louise Marie Vaudeville was born in [[La Tronche]], [[France]] in 1918. She graduated with a degree in Classics in 1939, a diploma in Indian studies in 1942 and in [[Hindi]] in 1943 from the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales]]. A [[Doctor of Letters]] degree followed in 1950.{{sfn|EFEO}}

Vaudeville studied under [[Jules Bloch]] and [[Louis Renou]], adapting their philological approach to religious literature to incorporate the social aspect of composition.{{sfn|Clémentin-Ojha|Manguin|2007|page=197}}

In 1945, she studied classical [[Awadhi language|Avadhi]] at [[Allahabad]], with the [[Tulsidas]] ''[[Ramcharitmanas]]'' becoming the subject of her thesis.{{sfn|Mallison|2007|page=xliii}} This was her first book, published in 1955. She also worked on [[Kabir]]'s poems at the [[Banaras Hindu University]], translating them into French.{{sfn|EFEO}} Her two monographs, ''Kabir Granthavali'' (1957) and ''Kabir'' (in English, 1974), became the definitive references on the saint.{{sfn|Mallison|2007|page=xliv}}{{sfn|Classe|2000|page=746}} Especially conclusive was her establishment of the corpus of sayings that could be attributed to him personally via critical analyses of the texts.{{sfn|Horstmann|2002|page=1}}

Recognising the currency of medieval religious songs even in the 20th century, she continued her studies of the works of [[Mirabai]], [[Surdas]], and [[Malik Muhammad Jayasi|Jayasi]]. Her ''Dhola-Maru'' (1962), a compendium of Rajasthani ballads, and ''Barahmâsâ'' (1965) demonstrated how Hindu tradition fed folksongs and vernacular poetry.{{sfn|Mallison|2007|page=xliv}}

Vaudeville worked at the [[École française d'Extrême-Orient]] (EFEO) between 1958–63. She then worked at the Institut français d'indologie (French Institute of Indology) at [[Pondicherry]], concentrating on Hindi and Marathi languages. She became Head of Studies at the [[École pratique des hautes études]] (EPHE) in 1963. Until 1971, she also ran EFEO's [[Poona]], which became part of the [[Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|Deccan College]]. She retired from her professorship at the [[University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3]] in 1988.{{sfn|EFEO}}

Switching from Hindi to Marathi, Vaudeville published her investigations into the ''[[Haripath]]'' of [[Dnyaneshwar|Dnyandev]] in 1982.{{sfn|Clémentin-Ojha|Manguin|2007|page=198}}

In her early career, Vaudeville also investigated the [[Krishna]] tradition of [[Braj]], in which she revealed its [[Shaivism|Saivite]] foundation.{{sfn|Bolle|1996|page=171}}{{sfn|Haberman|1992|page=953}}

Charlotte Vaudeville's works in Indian religious lore combined the archaeological and classical background to medieval and modern tradition. She combined ethnological fieldwork with textual analyses, establishing a methodology that was followed by subsequent scholars.{{sfn|Haberman|1992|page=953}} Her especial focus was on the ''bhakti'' tradition.{{sfn|Bolle|1996|page=170}}

A further path of analysis was on ''ginan'', [[Ismaili]] folk literature that was similar to ''padas'', a [[Hinduism|Hindu]] style of poetry.{{sfn|Haberman|1992|page=954}} Vaudeville established the role of Islam in the emergence of Hindu vernacular literatures, which were able to echo popular protests against the intellectual prestige of [[Sanskrit]]-based sacred texts.{{sfn|Mallison|2007|page=xlv}}

==Selected works==
* {{cite book|year=1955|title=Étude sur les sources et la composition du Râmâyana de Tulsî-Dâs|location=Paris|publisher= Libr. d'Amérique et d'Orient-Adrien Maisonneuve}}
* {{cite book|year=1962|title=Les Duhâ de Dhola-Mârû. Une ancienne ballade du Râjasthân|location=Pondicherry|publisher= Institut français d'indologie}}
* {{cite book|year=1974|title=Kabir|location=Oxford|publisher= Clarendon}}
* {{cite book|year=1977|title=Le Râmâyan de Tulsî-Dâs. Texte hindi traduit et commenté|location=Paris|publisher= Les Belles Lettres}}
* {{cite book|year=1982|title=Kabîr-Vânî, recension occidentale, introd. et concordances|location=Pondicherry|publisher=Institut français d'indologie}}
* {{cite book|title=Myths, Saints and Legends in Medieval India|location=Delhi|publisher= Oxford University|year=1996}}

== Citations ==

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==References==
* {{cite journal|last=Bolle|first=K. W.|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=116|pages=170–172|number=1|title= Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India; Studies in Honour of Charlotte Vaudeville; Edited by Diana L. Eck; Françoise Mallison|year=1996|doi=10.2307/606419|jstor=606419}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/vaudeville.htm|title=Charlotte Vaudeville|publisher=École française d'Extrême-Orient|ref={{harvid|EFEO}}}}
* {{cite book|first=O|last=Classe |year=2000|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1884964367}}
* {{cite book|last1=Clémentin-Ojha|first1=C. |last2= Manguin|first2=P.-Y.|title=A Century in Asia: The History of the École Française D'Extrême-Orient, 1898-2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpDO3yXQtn8C|year=2007|publisher=Editions Didier Millet|isbn=978-981-4155-97-7}}
* {{cite journal|first=D.L.|last=Haberman|title=Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India. Studies in Honor of Charlotte Vaudeville. Edited by Diana L. Eck and Francoise Mallison.|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|volume=51|issue=4|pages=953–954|year=1992|doi=10.2307/2059102|jstor=2059102}}
* {{cite book|first=M.|last=Horstmann|authorlink=Monika Boehm-Tettelbach|year=2002|title=Images of Kabir|publisher=Manohar}}
* {{cite journal|title=Charlotte Vaudeville (1918-2006)|first=F.|last=Mallison|authorlink=Françoise Mallison |year=2007|number=21|journal= Annuaires de l'École pratique des hautes études|volume=138|pages=43–45|doi=10.3406/ephe.2007.13135}}

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