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Indian sociologist (born 1949)
Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1946) is an
Indian
sociologist and public intellectual.
He was formerly Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
[1]
Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi. For a brief period from 1993 to 1994, he was also associated with the
Delhi School of Economics as Professor in the Department of Sociology. His current research interests include rural-urban transformation, labour laws in the informal sector, modernity, ethnicity, caste and stratification. He is a regular columnist with
The Times of India ,
The Hindu and occasionally in
The Indian Express and
Anandbazar Patrika in Bengali. He serves on the board of institutions like the
Reserve Bank of India , the
National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) and Max India.
Early life and education
Gupta was born and raised in
Delhi ,
Mumbai and
Kanpur . He completed his MA in Sociology from the
University of Delhi
[2] in 1971, before doing his PhD from
Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1977.
Career
Gupta has had a diverse career in academics, the corporate world and in government agencies. Between 1980 and 2009 Gupta was a professor at the
Jawaharlal Nehru University 's Centre for the Study of Social Systems. Between 1990 and 2007 he was co-editor of
Contributions to Indian Sociology
He started and led
KPMG 's Business Ethics and Integrity Division, New Delhi; was a member of the National Security Advisory Board and the
News Broadcasting Standards Authority. In 2010, he served on the Social Sciences jury for the
Infosys Prize .
He has also been on the Board of Governors of the
Doon School .
Awards
Bibliography
Gupta, Dipankar (2022) Checkpoint Sociology: A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics, Delhi: Aakar Books
Gupta, Dipankar (2018) Talking Sociology (Conversations with Ramin Jahanbegloo), New Delhi: Oxford University Press
Gupta, Dipankar (2017) From 'People' to 'Citizens': Democracy's Must take Road, Social Science Press.
ISBN
978-93-83166-23-7 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2017) QED: India Tests Social Theory, 2017, Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19947651-0
Gupta, Dipankar (2013).
Revolution from Above: India's Future and the Citizen Elite . Rainlight.
ISBN
978-8129124609 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2011).
Justice before Reconciliation: Negotiating a 'New Normal' in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad . Routledge.
ISBN
978-1136196867 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2011).
The caged phoenix: can India fly? . Stanford University Press.
ISBN
978-0804771894 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2005).
Learning to Forget: The Anti-Memoirs of Modernity . Oxford University Press India.
ISBN
0195674332 .
Béteille, André (2005). Gupta, Dipankar (ed.).
Anti-utopia: Essential Writings of André Béteille . Oxford University Press India.
ISBN
0198075979 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2004). Ethics Incorporated: Top Priority and Bottom Line . Sage.
ISBN
0761934715 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2004). Gupta, Dipankar (ed.). Caste in question: identity or hierarchy? . Sage.
ISBN
0761933247 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2000). Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society . Penguin Books India.
ISBN
0140297065 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2000). Mistaken Modernity: India Between Worlds . HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN
8172234155 .
Gupta, Dipankar (2000). Culture, Space and the Nation-State: From Sentiment to Structure . Sage.
ISBN
0761994998 .
Das, Veena; Gupta, Dipankar; Uberoi, Patricia, eds. (1999). Tradition, pluralism and identity: in honour of T.N. Madan . Contributions to Indian Sociology: Occasional studies. Vol. 8. Sage.
ISBN
0761993819 .
Gupta, Dipankar (1997). Rivalry and brotherhood: politics in the life of farmers in northern India . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0195641019 .
Gupta, Dipankar (1996). The Context of Ethnicity: Sikh Identity in a Comparative Perspective . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0195636945 .
Gupta, Dipankar (1996). Political Sociology in India: Contemporary Trends . Orient Blackswan.
ISBN
8125006656 .
Gupta, Dipankar, ed. (1992).
Social stratification . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-563088-6 .
Sharma, Kanhaiya Lal; Gupta, Dipankar, eds. (1991). Country-town nexus: studies in social transformation in contemporary India . Rawat Publications.
ISBN
8170330998 .
Gupta, Dipankar (1982).
Nativism in a Metropolis: The Shiv Sena in Bombay . Manohar.
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