Relying on many years of fieldwork and on his involvement with several national level policy making bodies, this book presents a cultural interpretation of how public life and state interventions in India should be viewed.
Dipankar Gupta taught in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for three decades. He has authored numerous books on caste, modernity, rural India and ethnicity. His current interest lies primarily in understanding how sociology can help understand and assist social policy.
