Böcker av Harald Tambs-Lyche

Drawing examples from ritual practice, myth and sacred texts the contributors discuss the place of the feminine in the male dominated society of South Asia within the sacred sphere of South Asian religion.

First Published in 1980, London Patidars presents the case study of the Patidars, a landowning caste from the Indian state of Gujarat, in London. Patidars being the landowning caste has taken over much of the ideology of the merchant castes. But the cases studied do not all conform to this ideal.