Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh

Bhikhu Parekh, 2020

Bhikhu Chhotalal Parekh, Baron Parekh FBA FRSA (* 4. January 1935 in Amalsad , Gujarat ) is from India originating British political scientist , university professor and politician of the Labor Party , since 2000 a member of the House of Lords and honored several times for his many years of service has been. In his numerous political science and political philosophical works he dealt with personalities such as Hannah Arendt , Jeremy Bentham , Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Karl Marx .

Life

After attending school, Parekh completed a degree in political science and, after completing his studies, was initially a lecturer at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 1957 to 1959 and then went to Great Britain, where he was only a tutor at the London School of Economics and Political from 1962 to 1963 Science (LSE) and then lecturer at the University of Glasgow . In 1964 he moved to the University of Hull and worked there until 1982 as a lecturer, senior lecturer and finally as a lecturer . In the meantime he was visiting professor from 1967 to 1968 at the University of British Columbia and from 1974 to 1975 at Concordia University in Montreal and then between 1976 and 1977 at McGill University there .

Parekh, who was Vice Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 1981 to 1984 , accepted a professorship for political science at the University of Hull in 1982 and taught there until his retirement in 2000. In addition to his teaching activities at the University of Hull He was visiting professor at Harvard University in 1996 , in 1997 at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona , in 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2000 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, Vice-Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1985 to 1990, from 1993 to 1997 Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the National Investigation of Ethnic Minorities in Great Britain, between 1994 and 1999 Member of the UK Universities National Equal Opportunities Commission and Chairman of the Commission for the Future of a Multi-Ethnic UK from 1998-2000. He was also a trustee of the Runnymede Trust from 1986 to 2003, of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) between 1988 and 1996, of the Gandhi Foundation since 1991 and of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) between 1991 and 1997.

Parekh was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 10, 2000 as a life peer with the title Baron Parekh, of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 23 May 2000 on its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords he belongs to the Labor Party faction .

After his retirement he held the "Centennial Professor" professorship at the LSE from 2001 to 2003 , and between 2001 and 2009 he was Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster . He was also President of the Academy of Social Sciences from 2004 to 2008 and President of the British Association of South Asian Studies from 2004 to 2007. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Maine in 2007 and has been a professor at the Center for Development Company Studies in Delhi since 2008 .

honors and awards

In the course of his many years of teaching and research, he has received several awards, including 1991 Asian of the Year . He also received the BBC Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Asians in 1999 , the Sir Isiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies in 2003 , the Distinguished Global Thinker Award in 2005 and the Pride of India Award in 2006 .

Parekh, who is an honorary professor at Aberystwyth University and has been awarded honorary doctorates from 16 universities, has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1990 , the British Academy in 2003 and the Asiatic Society of Mumbai in 2004. In 2009 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

In 2005 he was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman and in 2007 the Padma Bhushan .

Publications

In his numerous political science and political philosophical works he dealt with personalities such as Hannah Arendt, Jeremy Bentham, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Karl Marx. 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)

Web links

• Literature by and about Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 23 October 2012)
• Entry in the Hansard
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 23, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on October 23, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Introduction of Baron Parekh ( Hansard, May 23, 2000)
2. ↑ Directory of members: Bhikhu Parekh. Academia Europaea, accessed January 5, 2018 .