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,

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, New Delhi. For a brief period from 1993 to 1994, he was also associated with the

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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 ''

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'', ''

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'' and occasionally in ''

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'' and '' Anandbazar Patrika'' in Bengali. He serves on the board of institutions like the

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, 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

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. He was raised in Delhi,

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and

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. He completed his MA in Sociology from the

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in 1971, before doing his PhD from

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

'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

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'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

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. He has also been on the Board of Governors of the

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Awards

* 2013 D.Litt. Honoris Causa, University of Burdwan, West Bengal * 2010 Chevalier D'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres, (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) French Government Award * 2004 Malcolm Adeseshiah Award

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. . * Gupta, Dipankar (2017) QED: India Tests Social Theory, 2017, Oxford University Press. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

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