The Caged Phoenix
Can India Fly?
Dipankar Gupta
Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press
May 2010
320 Pages
Hardcover ISBN: 9780804771894
"The Caged Phoenix is a fine pick for anyone intrigued with modern India."—The Midwest Review
"A brilliant and dazzling new work from one of India's leading public intellectuals. This book is strikingly original and engagingly written for the broad audience it deserves."—N.J. Demerath III, Emile Durkheim Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Dipankar Gupta combines the roles of scholar, investigative reporter, and responsible citizen to analyze the context and constraints of India's growth story. This book is an important wake-up call and needs to be widely read."—Milton Israel, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
"This provocative and yet balanced perspective is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the impact of economic reform on India society."—John Echeverri-Gent, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
"[Gupta's] account of the changing aspirations in rural India, of the way in which caste has changed, the impact of migration and identity, the importance of urban life, is spot on."—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi
"A brilliant and dazzling new work from one of India's leading public intellectuals. This book is strikingly original and engagingly written for the broad audience it deserves."—N.J. Demerath III, Emile Durkheim Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Dipankar Gupta combines the roles of scholar, investigative reporter, and responsible citizen to analyze the context and constraints of India's growth story. This book is an important wake-up call and needs to be widely read."—Milton Israel, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
"This provocative and yet balanced perspective is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the impact of economic reform on India society."—John Echeverri-Gent, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
"[Gupta's] account of the changing aspirations in rural India, of the way in which caste has changed, the impact of migration and identity, the importance of urban life, is spot on."—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi
Dipankar Gupta is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is an expert on ethnicity, rural mobilization, informal labor, caste and social stratification, and modernity. He has held several overseas appointments, most recently the Leverhulme Professorship in the London School of Economics and as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is a regular columnist for a number of Indian newspapers and magazines.
