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,
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 writes frequently for''
The Times of India
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'', and occasionally for ''
The Hindu'' ''
The Indian Express
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'' and ''
Anandbazar Patrika''. He served 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
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,
Mumbai
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and
Kanpur. He completed his MA in Sociology from the
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE ...
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 th
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
* 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.
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Indian sociologists
Delhi University alumni
1949 births
Living people