As mentioned in the earlier chapters, Camille's evolution as a Christian priest and a scholar of Indian traditions and his knowledge were shaped at the Calcutta School of Indology – an umbrella institution, which made a genuine, rational and scientific approach to explore, examine and explain Indology to its members, to the wider Indian scholarly community and to the entire world. One must recognise the fundamental ethos of the Calcutta School of Indology as reflected in Camille's body of work. Not only did he produce some of the most extraordinary works on ancient and medieval Indian literature, philosophy and theology, but he also undertook the herculean and exceptional campaign to indigenise Christian sacred texts, philosophy and theology for ordinary Indians.

Camille's most renowned contribution to the field of Indology is his study of the Ramkatha; his doctoral thesis was turned into a celebrated book titled Ramkatha: Utpatti Aur Vikas. Right from its publication, this book was considered a tour de force, and as Dineshwar Prasad argues, Camille's work on the Ramkatha is the first of its kind that ‘compiled the narrative from various Indian and foreign sources and analysed each and every fact and meaning of it through a systematic, scientific and conclusive research’ (D. Prasad 2002, p. 22). Camille explored the Ramayana literature beyond Sanskrit and Hindi and studied ‘Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Kashmiri and Sinhalese’ versions of the story (D. Verma 1950, p. 6). The renowned Hindi littérateur Dhirendra Verma1 called this book an ‘encyclopaedia of the Ramkatha narrative’ that includes ‘the Rama-Story found abroad and in this connection information available from Tibet, Khotan, Indonesia, Indo- China [Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam], Siam [Thailand], Burma [Myanmar]’ (ibid.). The details and scholarly analysis highlight that ‘its range is simply astounding and kaleidoscopic’ (ibid.).

Camille's book is a testament to the broad sphere of Indian civilisational influence around South-East Asia based on the popularity of the Ramkatha. The story of Rama (Ramkatha) remained his lifelong passion, and apart from revising this book, he also wrote several research essays in Hindi, English, French and Flemish on this theme.