Michel Delahoutre has been a professor of Hinduism and Indian art at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris for more than twenty years and has coordinated the impressive choral work of the Dictionary of Religions directed by P. Poupard (PUF, Paris, 1993). Among his works published by Jaca Book, we mention The journey of Indian art (2008); Kumbha Mela. Indian pilgrimage (2001) and The spirit of Indian art (1994).