Background
Nalini Balbir was born of a French mother and an Indian father.
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Nalini Balbir
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Education
Between 1982-1988 she was a Research scholar in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where she completed her Doctor of Letters in Indian Studies with a magisterial work on the complex Jaina Avasyaka literature which was published in 1993 under the title Avasyaka Studien.
Career
She was a direct student of Indologist Colette Caillat. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to classical and modern Indian philology she became Professor of Indian Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of New Sorbonne) in 1988. Doctor Balbir is currently Professor for Indian Studies (Études Indiennes) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris-3), and since the year 2000 also Directeur d"Etudes for Middle-Indian Philology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques).
Membership
She is also a member of Pali text society in London and editor since 1983 of Bulletin d"Etudes Indiennes, an Indology Journal.
