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He also studied Hindi and Sanskrit languages, as well as Indian philosophy.
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During these years, he studied Indian classical music in Bénarès with Shivendranath Basu and played the veena, a classical Indian instrument which he started playing professionally. In Bénarès (now Varanasi), he lived in a mansion on the banks of the Ganges, named Rewa Kothi. In 1949, he was appointed as a research professor at the University, a post he held until 1953 he also remained the director of the College of Indian Music. Subsequently, in 1935, he joined the Banaras Hindu University, where he studied Hindu music, Sanskrit language and literature, Hindu philosophy, and Hindu religion for the next 15 years. His close association with Tagore lead him to become the director of Tagore's school of music at Shantiniketan (Visva-Bharati University). In 1932, during his first trip to India, he met one of the great influences poet Rabindranath Tagore. The photographs were featured in an exhibition at the New York's Metropolitan Museum. Daniélou and Burnier were among the first Westerners to visit India's famed erotic temples in the village of Khajuraho and Burnier's stunning photographs of the ancient temple complex launched the site internationally. He and his partner, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier, first went to India as part of an adventure trip, and they were fascinated with the art and culture of the nation. He started writing poems, as acquired proficiency in English and other European languages. He studied piano and singing, learning the songs of Duparc and Chausson and the Lieder of Schumann and Schubert. Growing up he rebelled against his mother's deep devotion to her faith, but his father remained a positive influence, which helped in developing his musical talent and in coping with his homosexuality. Subsequently, he performed professionally on stage with dancers such as Floria Capsali and Marjorie Daw. The young Daniélou studied singing under the famous Charles Panzéra, as well as classical dancing with Nicholas Legat (teacher of Vaslav Nijinsky), and composition with Max d'Ollone. He received his education at the Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, Neuilly-sur-Seine, and at St. One of his brothers was the Roman Catholic prelate and Académie Française member, Jean Daniélou. His father, Charles Daniélou, was an anti-clerical Breton politician who held numerous national ministerial posts in the Third Republic. His mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was from an old family of the Norman nobility a fervent Roman Catholic, she founded schools and a religious order, the Order of Sainte-Marie, for women teachers in civilian costume under the patronage of St.