Lecture On Specificity Of Indian Multiculturalism

Bhikhu Parekh

Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull and the University of Westminster, UK. Prior to that he was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, UK. He has been a Visiting Professor at McGill University, Canada; Harvard University, US; University of Pennsylvania, US; the Institute of Advanced Study, Vienna, Austria; and was Vice-Chancellor of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. He is the author of Ethnocentric Political Theory: The Pursuit of Flawed Universals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Debating India (OUP, 2015); A New Politics of Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Rethinking Multiculturalism (Harvard University Press, 2000); Gandhi (Sterling, 1997); and half a dozen other widely acclaimed books in political philosophy. He is the recipient of Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Philosophy, BBC's Special Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Global Thinker Award from India International Centre, and the Padma Bhushan from the President of India. Parekh's work has been translated into twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the European Academy, past President of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the House of Lords.