Centre for South Asian Studies

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Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster and the University of Hull, U.K., and was until recently Centennial Professor at the London Schools of Economics.  

He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities including McGill, Harvard, Institute of Advanced Study in Vienna, the University of Pennsylvania, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.  He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Baroda, India, from 1981-1984.  He is the author of several widely acclaimed books in political philosophy, including Rethinking Multiculturalism (Harvard University Press, 2000) and Debating India (Oxford University Press, 2016).  He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the European Academy, and past President of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. Professor Parekh received the BBC’s Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Asians in 1999, and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2000.  He has also received the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Philosophy and Padma Bhushan from the President of India.