Dipankar Gupta

Biographic Data

ID3636359
NAMEDipankar Gupta
GIVEN NAMESDipankar
FAMILY NAMEGupta
SIGNATUREGUPTA D
AFFILIATIONSJawaharlal Nehru University
ORCID0000-0003-0143-7143
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS106
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • André Béteille (1934–2026): A Realist, Humanist, and a thorough anti-Utopian

    Dipankar GuptaARTICLEEconomic and political…2026

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  • The New in the Old: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modernization of Indian Tradition

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLESociological Bulletin2023Cited by: 1References: 1

    The most startling feature of Modernization of Indian Tradition is that it was so ahead of its times when it appeared in 1973 that most of us missed its full import. In those years there was, in the main, a simplistic understanding of modernisation as its markers were primarily technological achievements and western lifestyles, even affectations. In this book, Professor Yogendra Singh broke away from such formulaic renditions and instead proposed…

  • Three Theses on Methodology

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLESociological Bulletin2021

  • Misreading Capital

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEFocaal2019References: 4

    Marx has been misread primarily because the politicians who, in his name, powered communist regimes popularized a tendentious interpretation of his works. In particular, they justified authoritarianism and violence by emphasizing the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the "animal theory of revolution" where the poor get poorer and eventually erupt in a cataclysmic fashion. Instead, if attention had been paid to Marx's seminal concept-"socially…

  • Talking Sociology: Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Ramin Jahanbegloo, Dipankar GuptaBOOKTalking Sociology2018

    A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and works and his contribution to Indian sociology. In this book of conversations, he shares insights into the key areas of Indian sociology, such as the problem of social stratification,…

  • From 'People' To 'Citizen: Democracy's Must Take Road

    Dipankar GuptaBOOKFrom 'People' To 'Citizen'2017

  • The Metaphors of Culture: Multiculturalism as a way of Everyday Life

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLESociological Bulletin2015

  • Interrogating Indias Modernity

    Dipankar GuptaBOOKInterrogating Indias Modernity2013

  • Learning to Forget: The Anti-Memoirs of Modernity

    Dipankar GuptaBOOKLearning to Forget2005

    This book introduces some of the enduring features of modernity which are often overlaid and hidden from view because of contemporaneous diachronies, or the coexistence of different temporal rhythms. The difference between ethical anonymity and morality is discussed. It illustrates how taste can attain the character of intersubjectivity by moving away decisively from past orientations to style. In addition, it describes the possible transformatio…

  • Learning to Forget

    Dipankar GuptaCHAPTERLearning to Forget2005

    The concerns of the present very clearly, and self-consciously, provide context and perspective to events of the past in comparative history. The context of the present justifies and provides the format for historical comparisons. Comparative history should inspect multiple visions of truth, and this should include stated evaluative positions of the analyst as well. Urban poverty and economic competition frequently express the impression that the…

  • Caste and Politics: Identity Over System

    Dipankar GuptaARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2005Cited by: 53References: 22

    To integrate conceptually the relationship between caste and politics, one must appreciate that the pure ritual hierarchy operates only when backed by wealth and power. In fact, there are multiple hierarchies in the caste order because each caste overvalues itself in relation to others. This can be gauged from their origin tales, which, without exception, claim an exalted past regardless of the actual status a caste occupies on the ground. With t…

  • Introduction: The certitudes of caste: When identity trumps hierarchy

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEContributions to Indian Sociology2004Cited by: 18References: 11

  • Nation-State and Open Systems of Stratification: Making Room for the ‘Politics of Commitment’

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLESociological Bulletin1999References: 1

    L'A. analyse l'impact de l'emergence des systemes de stratification sociale ouverts sur l'evolution des Etats-nations. Il rappelle que selon Marx l'avenement du capitalisme marque la disparition des liens sociaux, des solidarites et des systemes de stratification fermes de type traditionnel. Il estime que le capitalisme tend a s'emanciper des frontieres nationales et a rejeter les formes traditionnelles d'identification et de differenciation soci…

  • Profession

    Open AccessAneeta A Minocha, Dipankar GuptaARTICLESociological Bulletin1999

  • Civil Society in the Indian Context: Letting the State off the Hook

    Dipankar GuptaARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1997Cited by: 3

  • India's Agony over Religion

    Dipankar Gupta, Gerald James LarsenARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Engaging with Events: The Specifics of Political Sociology in India

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLECurrent Sociology1996Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Can Postmodernism be Universalised? Derrida and Baudrillard in the Tropics

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEContributions to Indian Sociology1995Cited by: 1References: 7

    L'A. se demande si la pensee post-moderniste peut se developper au sein des pays en voie de developpement. Il s'interesse a l'œuvre de J. Derrida et a celle de J. Baudrillard. Il souligne que le premier de ces auteurs a plus particulierement porte son attention sur l'epistemologie et que le second s'est efforce d'analyser l'evolution des societes vers une forme postmoderne. Il examine la notion de simulacre au cœur de l'œuvre de Baudrillard ainsi…

  • Managing Editor’s Report 1989-94

    Open AccessM N Panini, Dipankar Gupta et al.ARTICLESociological Bulletin1994

  • Between General and Particular `Others: Some Observations on Fundamentalism

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEContributions to Indian Sociology1993References: 2

  • Social Stratification

    Roger Jeffery, Dipankar GuptaARTICLEMan1993Cited by: 6

  • Peasant "Unionism" in Uttar Pradesh: Against the rural mentality thesis

    Dipankar GuptaARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Asia1992Cited by: 5References: 7

    Peasants and urbanites are, in certain things, one society, and the peasant knows it. It does not follow that the peasant looks upward to the city man in everything. (Redfield, 1953: 49

  • Ethnic Imagos and their Correlative Spaces: An Essay on some Aspects of Sikh Identity and Perceptions in Contemporary Punjab

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEContributions to Indian Sociology1992References: 8

  • The indispensable centre: Ethnicity and politics in the Indian nation state

    Dipankar GuptaARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Asia1990Cited by: 3References: 3

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsDipankar GuptaPaper presented to the JCA 20th Anniversary Conference on Asia: Capitalist Development and the Future of Socialism, Manila, Nov. 10–12, 1989

  • For a Sociology/Anthropology of Illness: Towards a Delineation of Its Disciplinary Specificities

    Open AccessDipankar GuptaARTICLEInternational Sociology1988Cited by: 1References: 6

    The designation 'sociology of health' or 'medical anthropology/sociology' indicates, at best, only the field and not the peculiarities of the field. As a consequence much work in this sub-discipline is of the genre, 'Sociology/Anthropology: Case Study Illness (or Health)'. This paper attempts to regroup the contributions made in this field in order to demonstrate the utility of establishing the specificities of the sub-discipline 'sociology/anthr…