Kathiawar is a peninsula surrounded by the old trade routes from India to Middle East and is the home of valiant Rajputs and a large community of non-violent merchants. The opposition between the violent and the non-violent, between the warrior and the merchant traditions is the main theme of the book. The story traces the gradual growth of what by the sixteenth century became a traditional Rajput polity.
Harald Tambs-Lyche
Harald Tambs-Lyche studied anthropology in Bergen and at SOAS, London. He has worked on Indian immigrants in Britain (London Patidars, 1980), on the social history of Saurashtra, India (Power, Profit and Poetry, 1997) and on its contemporary social organization (The Good Country, 2004). He has edited The Feminine Sacred in South Asia (1999), and, with Marine Carrin, People of the Jangal: Reformulating Identities and Adaptations in Crisis (2008). With Marine Carrin he also wrote on Scandinavian missionaries to the Santals, An Encounter of Peripheries (2008).
Harald Tambs-Lyche
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