Jean Calmette (5 April 1693, Rodez, France - February 1740, Chikkaballapur, India) was a French Jesuit missionary and an Indologist assigned in

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Primary

*''Satyavedasarasamgraha: A Short Exposition of the Essentials of the True Religion''. Ed. J. Aelen. Nellore: St John's Press, 1931. *''Satyavedasarasamgraha''. In ''The Indian Christiad: A Concise Anthology of Didactic and *Devotional Literature in Early Church Sanskrit'', ed. A. Amaladass and R. Young. Anand: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1995. 105-146. *''Tattvagrantha slokamulu''. 2nd ed. eprinting, in Canarese characters, only part of the prayers, since several of them 'are obscure and have a defective meaning.' Bangalore Catholic Mission Press, 1878. *''Tattvagrantha slokamulu''. Nellore: St John's Press, 1931. *''Satya Veda Sara Sangraham''. Ed. P. Rayana, SJ. Shembaganur, 1979. *Common Prayers. In ''The Indian Christiad: A Concise Anthology of Didactic and Devotional Literature in Early Church Sanskrit'', ed. A. Amaladass and R. Young. Anand: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1995. 147-195.

Secondary

*Bach, Julien. ''Le Pere Calmete et les Missionaires Indianistes''. Paris: Joseph Albanel, 1868. *Dahmen, Pierre. "Exraits de lettres inedites du P. Jean Calmette, S.J., missionaire dans l'Inde." ''Revue d'histoire des missions'' 1 (1934) 109-125. *Della Casa, Torino. "Il P. Calmette e le sue conoscenze indologiche." ''Studia Indologica: Festschrift fur Willibald Kirfel''. Ed. Otto Spies. Bonn: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars, 1955. 53-64. *Dahlmann, Joseph. "Die Sprachkunde und die Missionen. Ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik der ältern katholischen Missionsthätigkeit (1500-1800)". Freiburg im Breisgau / St. Louis Mo. tc. Herder, 1891, trad. anglaise partielle "Missionary pioneers and Indian languages." Trichinopoly: Catholic Truth Society of India, 1940 (cf. ''Rays Supplement'', November 1941). *Dharampal, G. "La religion des Malabars: : Tessier de Quéralay et la contribution des missionnaires européens à la naissance de l'indianisme", Immensee: Nouvelle Revue de science missionnaire, 1982

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Calmette, Jean People from Rodez 1692 births 1740 deaths 18th-century French Jesuits French Indologists French Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in India French expatriates in India Jesuit missionaries in India