Harald Tambs-Lyche

Harald Tambs-Lyche studied at the University of Bergen, Norway and at SOAS, London. Following work on the Indian diaspora ( London Patidars , 1980) he worked extensively on religion and society in Saurashtra, Gujarat ( Power, Profit and Poetry , 1997; The Good Country , 2004). Since the 1990s he has worked on the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara ( Business Brahmins , 2011), and is currently working, with his wife Marine Carrin, on a monograph on that region. Tambs-Lyche has co-authored,...See more

Harald Tambs-Lyche studied at the University of Bergen, Norway and at SOAS, London. Following work on the Indian diaspora ( London Patidars , 1980) he worked extensively on religion and society in Saurashtra, Gujarat ( Power, Profit and Poetry , 1997; The Good Country , 2004). Since the 1990s he has worked on the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara ( Business Brahmins , 2011), and is currently working, with his wife Marine Carrin, on a monograph on that region. Tambs-Lyche has co-authored, edited or co-edited several other books, and is the author of a large number of papers on Indian religion and society. He retired as professor of Ethnology, University of Picardie at Amiens, France, in 2013. See less