JOUVEAU-DUBREUIL, Gabriel. Saigon 1.1.1885 — Paris 15.7.1945. French Teacher and Archaeologist in India. Son of a marine physician, grew up in the Antilles and in Paris. He came to Pondichéry in 1909 and worked as Professor of “physique chimie” at Pondichéry Collège for 27 years (with the possible interruption of war Service). Started excavating almost immediately. Ph.D. 1914 Paris University. In the mid-1920s collaborated with D.A.F.A. in Begram. Back in South India, in 1926 found Nagarjunakonda, then excavated by Longhurst. Himself condusted excavations i. al. in Virapatnam-Arikamedu from 1937 on and recognized its Roman ceramics. Légion d’honneur 1932. Left India in 1941, came to France and finally to his brother in Paris, now seriously ill. His student and assistant was P. Z. Pattabiramin (1906–1971).
Publications: Diss. Archéologie du Sud de l’Inde. 1. Architecture. 2. Iconographie. 192+146 p. 108 pl. A.M.G. Bibl. d’ét. 26-27. P. 1914.
– “Les antiquités de l’époque Pallava”, Revue Histoire de l’Inde Française 1, 1916-17, 9-80 & 2, 1918, 5-32; “Les Pallavas”, RHIF 1, 1916-17, 341-443; “Histoire ancienne du Deccan”, RHIF 3, 1919, 219-349, English translation Ancient History of the Deccan. 114 p. Pondicherry 1920.
– L’Inde et les Romains. 7 p. P. 1921, English translation, “India and the Romans, by R. C. Temple, in the IA 52, 1923, 50-53.
– “La tholos aryenne du Malabar”, JRAS 1926, 715f. (English translation in the IA 57, 1928, 34); “Podouke-Pondichéry”, Le Semeur 10, Pondichéry 1938; “Les ruines romaines de Pondicherry”, BEFEO 40, 1940, 448-450.
– Iconography of Southern India. Transl. by A. C. Martin. 2+137 p. 78 pl. P. 1937.
– Dupleix ou l’Inde conquise. 190 p. P. 1942.
Sources: *A. de Saxcé, “G.J.-D.: la passion d’un archéologue pour l’Inde du Sud”, Revue historique de Pondichéry 2014, 3-30; Catal. gén. de la libr. fr. 26, 1913–1915 & 29, 1919–1921; life dates in data.bnf.fr/12544290/gabriel_jouveau-dubreuil/; life in agorha.inha.fr with photo; modest photo in www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Gabriel-Jouveau-Dubreuil-1885-1945-devant-un-bas-relief-Conversion-de-Nanda-Posters_i7224499_.htm; Wikipedia briefly with photo.
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