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Louis Dumont  

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  • Louis Dumont was an influential Indologist and social anthropologist who made a significant contribution to the global consciousness about religion and culture. Dumont was born in the Ottoman city of Salonika, Turkey, in 1911, where his French engineer father had served the interests of the Turkish government. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Dumont, Louis (1911–1998)]

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