Talking Sociology: Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo (Professor, Vice Dean, and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University),Prof. Dipankar Gupta (Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Talking Sociology: Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo (Professor, Vice Dean, and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University),Prof. Dipankar Gupta (Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Talking Sociology is the ninth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent intellectuals who have made significant contribution in shaping the modern Indian thought. The present volume covers the life and works of the influential Indian sociologist and public intellectual, Dipankar Gupta. As a social scientist, Gupta has made remarkable contribution to contemporary social theory by redefining and reconstructing the central concepts of the past masters and taking sociology beyond its disciplinary boundaries by helping several generations of Indians understand contemporary social change and transformation of institutions. He is considered the most insightful analyst of modernity and modernization in India. The conversation in this volume revolves around Gupta’s career and contribution to the field, and discusses the key areas of sociology such as the problem of social stratification, citizenship and democracy, and the caste system and ethnic groups in India.
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