Professor Dipankar Gupta

Professor Dipankar Gupta joined the faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1980. In Professor Gupta has authored and co-authored 15 between, for a brief period between 1993-1994, he books. He has written nearly 70 research articles in went as Professor to the Department of Sociology, various scholarly journals. Among his most recent School of Economics, . publications are Caste in Question (2005), Anti- Educated in Delhi School of Economics and JNU Utopia: the Essential Writings of Andre Beteille from where he obtained his master’s and doctoral (2006), and Learning to Forget: The Anti-Memoirs degrees respectively, Dipankar Gupta has researched of Modernity (2006). His latest work, The on a number of themes beginning with his first work CagedPhoenix: Will India Fly was published in on the Shiv Sena. 2009. He was editor of the prestigious journal Contributions to Indian Sociology for over 15 years In recent times he has conducted a number of field till 2006. based studies ranging from ethnicity to caste to farmers’ mobilization to modernity and agrarian In 2001 Professor Gupta was awarded the Eric distress. In 2008 he completed an extensive project Wolfe-Krishna Bharadwaj prize for his studies on the on cotton farming in six states of India. Currently he Indian peasantry. In 2004 he received the Malcolm is writing up his field research on post conflict Adeseshiah Award for Development Studies. His situation in Ahmedabad and . book Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds, published in 2000, was number one on India’s non- Over the years he has held many visiting fiction best seller list for over six weeks. His current appointments in universities in North America, research interest is in understanding the changing Europe and the UK. He was the first Asian nominee nature of Indian villages with particular reference to to the Visiting Asia Chair in the Institute of Politics migration and rural non-farming occupations. and Social Science (Sciences-Po), Paris in 2004. He has taught in Toronto University and Strasbourg In 1998 Professor Gupta started KPMG’s Business University on several occasions. He was also Ethics division in Delhi. He led this practice for over Leverhulme Professor in the London School of five years. In his corporate engagements Professor Economics in 2003 He has spent time as a Visiting Gupta has contributed most significantly in setting up Faculty in several universities overseas as a Fulbright customized ethical business manuals, advising clients Professor, as Shastri-Indo Canadian Fellow, and as on corporate social responsibility, and carrying out Charles Wallace Fellow. In 2007 he was Woodrow social audits and sustainability services. In his view Wilson Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in companies can profit from ethical business and the Washington D.C., USA. tools of responsible corporate practices contribute to a healthy bottom line. He has spoken on these Besides his teaching engagements outside Jawaharlal themes in many seminars and workshops both in Nehru University, Professor Gupta is involved in an India and abroad. His book Ethics Incorporated: Top advisory capacity in several educational and research Priority and Bottom Line was recently re-issued by institutions. He was the President’s nominee in the Sage in 2006. Academic/Executive Committees of Visvabharati and Pondicherry University, which are both Central Professor Gupta also writes frequently in popular Universities. He is also on the Board of Governors of journals and newspapers. He believes that Doon School, Member of the National Security communicating with the non-academic audience can Advisory Board, the National Broadcasting Authority only help in a wider dissemination of research and the Punjab Government Reforms findings and in the enrichment of public knowledge. Commission. In addition he is on the editorial board Currently he has a coloumn in Times of India, Mail of several scholarly journals both in India and abroad. Today and Ananda Bazaar Patrika.

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