Bhikhu Parekh

Bhikhu Chhotalal Parekh, Baron Parekh of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire FBA FRSA ( born January 4, 1935 in Amalsad, Gujarat ) is a native of India British political scientist, university lecturer and Labour Party politician, who since 2000 Member of House of Lords and was honored several times for his many years of service. In his numerous political science and philosophical works he dealt with people like Hannah Arendt, Jeremy Bentham, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Karl Marx.

Life

After schooling Parekh holds a degree in political science and was after graduation, first from 1957 to 1959 lecturer at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and then went to Britain, where he only 1962-1963 Tutor at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE) and then a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. In 1964 he moved to the University of Hull, where he worked until 1982 as a lecturer, senior lecturer and finally as a lecturer. In the meantime, he was from 1967 to 1968 Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, and from 1974 to 1975 at Concordia University in Montreal and then 1976-1977. At the city's McGill University

Parekh, who was from 1981 to 1984 Vice- Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, adopted in 1982 became professor of political science at the University of Hull and taught there until his retirement in 2000. Besides teaching at the University of Hull 1996 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, in 1997 at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, ​​in 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

During this time he was also involved in numerous organizations and institutions and was, among other things from 1985 to 1990 Vice - Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 1997 chairman of the advisory committee for the National of study of ethnic minorities in the UK, between 1994 and 1999 Member of the National Commission of British universities for Equal Opportunities and 1998-2000 Chairman of the Commission on the future of multi-ethnic Britain. He was also a trustee of the Runnymede Trust from 1986 to 2003, the Institute for Public Policy Research ( IPPR ) Between 1988 and 1996, the Gandhi Foundation and since 1991-1997 the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS ).

Parekh was raised by a Letters Patent of 10 May 2000 as a life peer with the title Baron Parekh of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, on 23 May 2000 was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Labour Party.

After his retirement he had from 2001 to 2003, the " century " Professorship ( Centennial Professor ) held at the LSE and worked next to it between 2001 and 2009 as a professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster. He was also the 2004-2008 President of the Academy of Social Sciences and next between 2004 and 2007 president of the British Association of South Asian Studies. Moreover, he had in 2007 also held a visiting professorship at the University of Maine and is since 2008 professor at the Center for the Studies of development companies in Delhi.

Honors and Awards

Throughout his many years of teaching and research activities, he has received numerous awards and among other things 1991 Asian of the Year. In addition, he received the 1999 BBC Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Asians, 2003 Sir Isiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies, 2005 Distinguished Global Thinker Award and in 2006 the Pride of India Award.

Parekh, who is an honorary professor of Aberystwyth University and honorary doctorates were awarded by 16 universities, is also since 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 2003, the British Academy and 2004, the Asiatic Society of Mumbai.

Pravasi Bharatiya Samman him the first was awarded in 2005 and 2007, the Padma Bhushan.

Publications

In his numerous political science and philosophical works he dealt with people like Hannah Arendt, Jeremy Bentham, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Karl Marx. Among his most famous works include:

  • Hannah Arendt ( 1981)
  • Karl Marx 's Theory of Ideology (1982 )
  • Contemporary Political Thinkers (1982 )
  • Gandhi 's Political Philosophy (1989 )
  • Colonialism, Tradition and Reform (1989 )
  • Critical assessments of Jeremy Bentham ( 4 volumes, 1993)
  • Decolonization of Imagination (1996 )
  • Crisis and Change in Contemporary India ( 1996)
  • Gandhi (1997)
  • Rethinking Multiculturalism (2000)
  • A New Politics of Identity (2008)
  • Talking Politics (2011)
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