Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1949) is an

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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 writes frequently for''

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'', and occasionally for ''

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'' and '' Anandbazar Patrika''. He served on the board of institutions like the

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, the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) and Max India.

Early life and education

Gupta was born and raised in

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and Kanpur. 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

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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 th
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

Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mode ...

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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