"Today, music from far afield’has become a reference for many specialists and connoisseurs. These treasures have inspired many contemporary composers. We owe all this to Alain Daniélou. Today the existence all over the world, and especially in the Orient, of music, which is as classical as that Bach and Mozart, is universally acknowledged : we owe that fact to Alain Daniélou’s farsightedness and unstinting efforts".
Noriko Aikawa, Director of the Intangible Heritage Section of UNESCO.

The Mleccha’s Exercice Books
By Jacques E. Cloarec, Le Labyrinthe, september 2002.

The first book to be published by Alain Daniélou, in 1936, was a selection of articles entitled Le Tour du Monde. Since that time, over half a century ago, besides the works listed at the end of this volume, Alain Daniélou wrote hundreds of articles for journals, encyclopaedias, conferences, radio programmes, ect., which he did in various language, Hindi, French, English, Italian.