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Dipankar Gupta

{{Short description|Indian sociologist (born 1949)}}

{{Use Indian English|date=September 2020}}

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Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1949) is an Indian sociologist and public intellectual. He was formerly Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,{{cite web|url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/csss/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214604/http://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/csss/ |archivedate=26 April 2014 |df=dmy |title=:: Centre for Studies of the Social Systems (CSSS), SSS, JNU :: }} 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. He has a son and lives with his wife in New Delhi.

Early life and education

Gupta was born in Delhi. He was raised in Delhi, Mumbai and Kanpur. He completed his MA in Sociology from the University of Delhi{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.in/du/}} 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}}
  • {{cite book

|year=2013

|title= Revolution from Above: India's Future and the Citizen Elite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w35PngEACAAJ&q=Revolution+from+Above:+India%27s+Future+and+the+Citizen+Elite

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Rainlight

|isbn=978-8129124609

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2011

|title= Justice before Reconciliation: Negotiating a 'New Normal' in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97kab4Gq7CwC&q=Justice+before+Reconciliation%3A+Negotiating+a+%E2%80%98New+Normal%E2%80%99+in+Post-riot+Mumbai+and+Ahmedabad

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Routledge

|isbn=978-1136196867

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2011

|title=The caged phoenix: can India fly?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrggAQAAMAAJ&q=The+caged+phoenix:+can+India+fly

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Stanford University Press

|isbn=978-0804771894

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2005

|title=Learning to Forget: The Anti-Memoirs of Modernity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbkYAAAAYAAJ&q=Learning+to+Forget:+The+Anti-Memoirs+of+Modernity

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Oxford University Press India

|isbn=0195674332

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2005

|title=Anti-utopia: Essential Writings of André Béteille|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RRG5AAAAIAAJ&q=Anti-utopia:+Essential+Writings+of+Andr%C3%A9+B%C3%A9teille

|first=André|last=Béteille

|editor-first=Dipankar|editor-last=Gupta

|publisher=Oxford University Press India

|isbn=0198075979

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2004

|title=Ethics Incorporated: Top Priority and Bottom Line

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Sage

|isbn=0761934715

}}

  • {{cite book

|year=2004

|title=Caste in question: identity or hierarchy?

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|editor-first=Dipankar|editor-last=Gupta

|publisher=Sage

|isbn=0761933247

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society

|publisher=Penguin Books India

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|year=2000

|isbn=0140297065

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Mistaken Modernity: India Between Worlds

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers

|year=2000

|isbn=8172234155

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Culture, Space and the Nation-State: From Sentiment to Structure

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Sage

|year=2000

|isbn=0761994998

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Tradition, pluralism and identity: in honour of T.N. Madan

|series=Contributions to Indian Sociology: Occasional studies|volume=8

|editor1-first=Veena|editor1-last=Das

|editor2-first=Dipankar|editor2-last=Gupta

|editor3-first=Patricia|editor3-last=Uberoi

|publisher=Sage

|year=1999

|isbn=0761993819

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Rivalry and brotherhood: politics in the life of farmers in northern India

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|year=1997

|isbn=0195641019

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=The Context of Ethnicity: Sikh Identity in a Comparative Perspective

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|year=1996

|isbn=0195636945

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Political Sociology in India: Contemporary Trends

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Orient Blackswan

|year=1996

|isbn=8125006656

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Social stratification

|editor-first=Dipankar|editor-last=Gupta

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|year=1992

|isbn=978-0-19-563088-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysLsAAAAIAAJ

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Country-town nexus: studies in social transformation in contemporary India

|editor1-first=Kanhaiya Lal|editor1-last=Sharma

|editor2-first=Dipankar|editor2-last=Gupta

|publisher=Rawat Publications

|year=1991

|isbn=8170330998

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Nativism in a Metropolis: The Shiv Sena in Bombay

|first=Dipankar|last=Gupta

|publisher=Manohar

|year=1982

|url=https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt

|url-access=registration

}}

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