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).
