Prof. Dipankar Gupta
Prof. Gupta has been a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University till July 2009.
His work focuses on the structure of society and social change in India. He has received the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies for 2004. He has held visiting appointments in several overseas institutions such as those in the University of Toronto, London School of Economics, Science-Po in Paris and Lille, University of Strasbourg, and most recently in Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. He has written and edited 15 books, including his last work is titled, 'The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?' He has been a co-editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology for over 15 years and has written for various popular journals and Indian dailies.