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Gupta /ˈɡuːptə/ (Hindi: गुप्ता) is a common surname of Indian origin.

According to some academicians, the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit goptri, meaning military governor.^[1] A more direct translation of the Sanskrit word gupta is 'secret' or 'hidden'.^[2] According to prominent historian R. C. Majumdar, the surname Gupta was adopted by several different communities in northern and eastern India at different times.^[3]

In northern India, the surname Gupta has been adopted mainly by the Agarwal communities.^[4]

Communities[link]

Below is a list of various communities which adopt the surname Gupta —

Additionally, the surname Gupta is adopted by some other communities in other parts of the Indian subcontinent —

• The Guptas from the West Bengal belong to the Vaid (physician) community, and are related to the Sengupta and Dasgupta communities of Bengal who are vaid-Brahmins.
• Telis also use the Gupta surname.^[5][6]
• Gomathis and Chettys also use Guptha added along with a surname.
• Like Gomathis, who are of Dravidian descent, Kayasthas(Bengali vyshyas) also use the title Guptha.

List of people with the name Gupta[link]

Monarchs[link]

• Maharaja Sri-Gupta, founder of the Gupta Empire
• Ghatotkacha (Gupta Ruler), father of Chandragupta I
• Chandragupta I, first Gupta emperor
• Samudragupta
• Chandragupta II, also known as Chandragupta Vikramaditya
• Kumaragupta I
• Skandagupta, last Gupta emperor
• Vishnugupta (Gupta Empire)

Scientists[link]

• Brahmagupta (589–668), Indian mathematician and astronomer

Academics[link]

• Aghore Nath Gupta, an Indian scholar of Buddhism and a preacher of the Brahmo Samaj
• Akhil Gupta, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the field of social and cultural anthropology
• Amar Gupta, professor and scientist
• Amlan Das Gupta, Indian professor of English in Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• M K Das Gupta, Indian professor and scientist
• Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Indian biologist
• S. P. Gupta, Indian archaeologist and art historian
• Suraj N. Gupta, Indian-American physicist

In business and management[link]

• Mahendra Mohan Gupta, owner of the Dainik Jagran group of Hindi newspapers
• N. C. Sen Gupta, eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
• Raj Gupta, CEO and president of Rohm and Haas
• Rajat Gupta, United Nations special advisor on management reforms, former director of Goldman Sachs and former head of McKinsey Consulting
• Rajiv Gupta, general manager of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project
• S. K. Gupta, vice president of Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Vinod Gupta, chairman and CEO of infoUSA
• Subodh Gupta, chairman and CEO of HemtroN Lightings,www.rouniyar.com,Rouniyar Sewa Sansthan Delhi
• Vikas Gupta, head of consumer payments division of Google

In entertainment[link]

• Aditi Gupta, Indian television actress
• Anil Gupta, British writer and producer (radio and television)
• Buddhadev Das Gupta, Indian classical sarod musician and teacher
• Neena Gupta, Indian film and television actress
• Rajendra Gupta, actor in cinema for good character roles.
• Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian film director and script writer
• Puja Gupta, winner of Miss India Universe in 2007
• Tanika Gupta, British playwright of Indian origin
• Sanjay Gupta (director), Bollywood director
• Yana Gupta, Indian model-actress of Czech-origin
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta, American teleneurosurgeon and CNN senior medical correspondent

In journalism[link]

• Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of Indian Express

In literature[link]

• Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian Hindi poet
• Baldev Raj Gupta, Indian writer
• Ishwar Chandra Gupta, Indian Bengali poet and writer
• Jagadish Gupta, Bengali poet and writer
• Mahendranath Gupta, Indian spiritual writer and disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
• Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Bengali scholar in philosophy, languages and literature

In politics[link]

• Banarsi Das Gupta, former chief minister of Haryana
• Indrajit Gupta, Indian Communist leader, Union Minister for Home Affairs during 1996-98
• Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian politician; former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and governor of Madhya Pradesh
• Shyama Charan Gupta, Indian politician
• Badal Gupta, Indian revolutionary
• Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary
• Ram Prakash Gupta, Indian social worker and participant in the Indian Independence movement and Bhoodan movement
• Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian revolutionary and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali
• Niranjan Sen Gupta, Indian revolutionary
• Nolini Kanta Gupta, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic

In sports[link]

• Abhinn Shyam Gupta, Indian badminton player
• Pankaj Gupta, Indian sports administrators
• Sandip Gupta, Kenyan cricketer
• Abhijeet Gupta, Indian chess player

In Healthcare[link]

• Sanjay Gupta, Indian doctor

in power

• L N GUPTA

See also[link]

• Vaisyas
• Forward caste
• Vishnugupta (disambiguation)
• Sahu
• Teli
• Other Backward Class

References[link]

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Anil Gupta (born 1974, UK) is a comedy writer and producer. He has produced many shows on radio and television including Goodness Gracious Me, the spoof chat show The Kumars at No. 42, The Office and Bromwell High.^[1]. He wrote the Cinderella episode of the 2008 comedy drama series Fairy Tales and ElvenQuest.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Anil Gupta at the Internet Movie Database

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Umang Gupta (born 1949) is an Indian-American business executive.

Biography[link]

Career[link]

Umang Gupta is the current Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: KEYN) since December 1989. Keynote Systems is a Silicon Valley, California Company that employs approximately 500 people and has revenue of $103.0 million in fiscal year 2011. The company develops and sells services, hardware and software to measure, test, assure and improve the quality of service of the Internet and of mobile communications.

Education[link]

Umang Gupta holds a Bachelor of Technology degree (1971) in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and an M.B.A. degree (1972) from Kent State University in Ohio, USA. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions to Information Technology and entrepreneurial achievements.

IBM and Oracle[link]

After working seven years at IBM, in 1981 Umang Gupta joined Oracle Corporation as their 17th employee and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984. At Oracle he is accredited with writing the first business plan for the company. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.

Other[link]

In 2000 Umang was honored with of the Asian Pacific Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy. Apart from his professional activities, Umang has previously served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, California, USA based public charity that builds investment and involvement in community. Umang along with his wife Ruth continues to devote time to PARCA, the Peninsula Association of Retarded Children and Adults, a non-profit organization in the Bay Area of California. He also has an avid interest in history and serves on the Board of the San Mateo Historical Association. Umang is the current Chairman of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and Board Chairman of PanIIT USA.

Gupta Technologies[link]

He was the founder and Chairman and CEO of Gupta Technologies, a client/server database and tools company, from 1984 to 1996, where he helped to usher in the era of client server computing with the world’s first SQL database server and application development tools for PC networks.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography "UmangGupta" was prepared and presented at the 2000 gala by Board Member and KRON TV News Anchor Emerald Yeh.

Esha Gupta
Esha Gupta at Jannat 2 audio release
Born	(1985-11-28) 28 November 1985 (age 26)[1] Greater Noida, India[2]
Occupation	Actress, Model
Years active	2007-present

Esha Gupta (born 28 November 1985) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. She won the Miss India International title in 2007. She represented India in the Miss International 2007 contest. In 2012, she was signed by Mahesh Bhatt for a three-film contract with Vishesh Films and made her screen debut in Deshmukh's Jannat 2, she also will be seen in Bhatt's Raaz 3D and Prakash Jha's Chakravyuh.

Career[link]

Modelling (2007-2011)[link]

Esha Gupta is Miss India International 2007 winner and Kingfisher girl who also featured in the Kingfisher calender 2010. Esha Gupta started her career in modeling before moving onto Bollywood. She was doing her Mass Communication studies before taking part in Miss India contest. Gupta is a trained Kathak and Jazz Dancer.^[3]

Film Debut & Breakthrough (2012-present)[link]

Launched by the Bhatt camp, Esha Gupta debuts in Bollywood with Jannat 2 opposite Emraan Hashmi in the lead role.^{[4] [5][6]} She was appreciated with film critics. One of them commented, "Debutante Esha Gupta enchants you with her captivating charm. She appears a tad unrefined at places, nonetheless she handles her part assertively". Later, Gupta signed Raaz 3D alongside her Jannat 2 co-star, Emraan Hashmi and Bipasha Basu. Gupta has also started filming for her third film, which is her first film outside of the Vishesh Films banner, Chakravyuh.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External Links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Esha Gupta

• Esha Gupta at the Internet Movie Database
• Esha Gupta's fan site

Akhil Gupta (born 1959) is an Indian-American anthropologist whose research has focused on the anthropology of the state and of development, as well as on postcolonialism. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography[link]

He is married to Purnima Mankekar.

Education[link]

Akhil attended St. Xavier's School in Jaipur and graduated in 1974. Gupta did his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from Western Michigan University, following that with a Mechanical Engineering Masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gupta then spent the next eight years getting a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Research[link]

In 1992, while still at Stanford, Gupta along with fellow Stanford anthropologist James Ferguson wrote the well-known and oft-cited essay, "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference."^[1] which argued that the analytic concept of culture had remained largely unproblematized by anthropological discourse, and that anthropologists of the day had failed to recognize and analyze the politics of cultural difference, how such differences were produced, and how such differences were used and abused by the state and by capital. The article argues for the examination of cultural anthropology as an unconscious mechanism of neo-imperialism.

Gupta has done extensive work in rural North India. In his book, Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, Gupta analyzes whether and how post-colonial theory can be applied to subaltern rural places. He attempts to understand the growth of modern India through its agricultural sector. Most of his work has taken place in the western part of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gupta has also tried to understand the ethnography of the state - as lived, understood and discussed in rural India.

He is also a leading figure in the anthropology of the state, and is the co-editor of a book of collected essays called The Anthropology of the State: A Reader.^[2]

Tenure-ship controversy[link]

Gupta was unanimously approved for tenure in 1996 at Stanford, but was then denied tenure by the dean John Shoven. However, in the face of outcry from across the academy as well as mobilization by students, the dean's decision was overturned.^[3][4]

Selected publications[link]

• Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, 1997
• Editor, The Anthropology of the State: A Reader (with Aradhana Sharma), 2006
• Editor, Caste and Outcast (with Gordon Chang and Purnima Mankekar), 2002
• Editor, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (with James Ferguson), 1997
• Editor, Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (with James Ferguson), 1997

References cited[link]

External links[link]

• Stanford page
• Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Profile Page for Akhil Gupta
• Iris F. Litt Award
• Anthropology department splits in two over tenure ship