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Business Brahmins: The Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara
Publisher:
Manohar
| Author:
Harald Tambs-Lyche
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Manohar
Author:
Harald Tambs-Lyche
Language:
English
Format:
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Village studies have dominated anthropological writing on India for a long time, though more recently, much has been written on the big cities. This study is original in focusing on a small-town bourgeoisie. Udupi, in South Kanara (north of Mangalore), was just a famous pilgrimage center, then an administrative unit, until the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins arrived there in the 189s. They were instrumental in creating a flourishing market and town, and their businesses still form the core of the local economy. Written like a piece of local history, this book tells the story of the town from the perspective of these ‘Business Brahmins’, but it also presents an analysis of kinship, religion and community in a Brahmin caste.
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Village studies have dominated anthropological writing on India for a long time, though more recently, much has been written on the big cities. This study is original in focusing on a small-town bourgeoisie. Udupi, in South Kanara (north of Mangalore), was just a famous pilgrimage center, then an administrative unit, until the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins arrived there in the 189s. They were instrumental in creating a flourishing market and town, and their businesses still form the core of the local economy. Written like a piece of local history, this book tells the story of the town from the perspective of these ‘Business Brahmins’, but it also presents an analysis of kinship, religion and community in a Brahmin caste.
About Author
Harald Tambs-Lyche studied anthropology in Bergen and at SOAS, London. He has worked on Indian immigrants in Britain (London Patidars, 198), on the social history of Saurashtra, India (Power, Profit and Poetry, 1997) and on its contemporary social organization (The Good Country, 24). He has edited The Feminine Sacred in South Asia (1999), and, with Marine Carrin, People of the Jangal: Reformulating Identities and Adaptations in Crisis (28). With Marine Carrin he also wrote on Scandinavian missionaries to the Santals, An Encounter of Peripheries (28).
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