Dumont was born in
Thessaloniki, in the
Salonica Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire. He taught at
Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of
India, Dumont also studied
western social philosophy and ideologies. Dumont died in 1998, aged 87, in
Paris. ==Works==