Name Dipankar Gupta | Role Sociologist | |
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Books Mistaken Modernity, Revolution from Above: In, Interrogating caste, The Caged Phoenix: Can India, The Context of Ethnicity | ||
Dipankar gupta the hollowed village and the hopeful slum 2012
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 1993–1994, 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.
Contents
- Dipankar gupta the hollowed village and the hopeful slum 2012
- Urban dialogue with prof dipankar gupta on 23 feb 2015
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards
- References
Urban dialogue with prof dipankar gupta on 23 feb 2015
Early life and education
Gupta was born in Patna, Bihar before going to school and college in Delhi, Mumbai and Kanpur. He completed his MA in Sociology from the University of Delhi 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
Over the years he has held many appointments and fellowships in universities in North America, Europe and UK.
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. He has also been on the Board of Governors of the Doon School.