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About Dipankar Gupta
- 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.
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