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'''Bhikhu Chotalal [[Parekh]], Baron Parekh''' (born 4 January 1935 in Amalsad, [[Gujarat]])<ref name="bba">[http://www.bombaybar.com/lectures/justice_kt_desai_memorial_lecture_2009_lord_bhikhu_parekh.php Biography] as the speaker for the Justice KT Desai Memorial Lecture 2009, Bombay Bar Association, retrieved 2010-03-25.</ref> is a [[political theorist]]. |
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| office = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lord Temporal]] |
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| term_start = 10 May 2000<br>[[Life peerage]] |
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* [[London School of Economics]] |
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* [[University of Glasgow]] |
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* [[University of Hull]] |
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* [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]] |
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'''Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh''' ('''Baron Parekh'''; born 4 January 1935)<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Parekh | id = U30023 | year = 2003 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30023}}</ref> is a British [[political theorist]], academic, and [[life peer]]. He is a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[member of the House of Lords]]. He was Professor of Political Theory at the [[University of Hull]] from 1982 to 2001, and Professor of [[Political Philosophy]] at the [[University of Westminster]] from 2001 to 2009. He served as president of the [[Academy of Social Sciences]] from 2003 to 2008.<ref name=whoswho/> |
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==Early life and education== |
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==Biography== |
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Parekh was born in the village of Amalsad in the province of [[Gujarat]], India;<ref name="bba"/> his father was a goldsmith with a basic education.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=159231§ioncode=26|title=A lord with a rainbow notion|journal=[[Times Higher Education]]|date=October |
Parekh was born in the village of Amalsad in the province of [[Gujarat]], India;<ref name="bba">[http://www.bombaybar.com/lectures/justice_kt_desai_memorial_lecture_2009_lord_bhikhu_parekh.php Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613173042/http://www.bombaybar.com/lectures/justice_kt_desai_memorial_lecture_2009_lord_bhikhu_parekh.php |date=13 June 2010 }} as the speaker for the Justice KT Desai Memorial Lecture 2009, Bombay Bar Association. Retrieved 25 March 2010.</ref> his father was a goldsmith with a basic education.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=159231§ioncode=26|title=A lord with a rainbow notion|journal=[[Times Higher Education]]|date=13 October 2000}}.</ref> Parekh was admitted to the [[University of Bombay]] at the age of 15,<ref name="bba"/> and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1954 and a Master's in 1956. He began his graduate studies at the [[London School of Economics]] in 1959, and received his PhD in 1966.<ref name="essex"/> |
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==Career== |
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He taught at the London School of Economics and at the [[University of Glasgow]] before finding a long-term position at the [[University of Hull]].<ref name="essex"/> Between 1981 and 1984 he was Vice-Chancellor at the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]] in [[India]].<ref name="bba"/><ref name="essex"/> He also held the Centennial Professorship in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics<ref name="bba"/> and a professorship of political philosophy at the [[University of Westminster]].<ref>[http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/humanities/politics-and-international-relations/people People – University of Westminster Department of Politics and International Relations], retrieved 2010-03-25.</ref> In 2002, he served as president of the [[Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences]].<ref name="essex"/> Parekh has also served on the [[Commission for Racial Equality]] (including a spell as Vice-Chairman) and has held membership of a number of bodies concerned with issues of racial equality and multiculturalism - most notably as Chairman of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain from 1998 to 2000. The report of this body (often referred to as the "Parekh Report") has been the basis for much of the debate on multiculturalism in the UK in the early 21st century. He had 3 children. One had an awesome child called freddie p-g |
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He taught at the [[London School of Economics]] and at the [[University of Glasgow]] before finding a long-term position at the [[University of Hull]].<ref name="essex"/> Between 1981 and 1984 he was Vice-Chancellor at the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]] in India.<ref name="bba"/><ref name="essex"/> He also held the Centennial Professorship in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics<ref name="bba"/> and a professorship of political philosophy at the [[University of Westminster]].<ref>[http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/humanities/politics-and-international-relations/people People – University of Westminster Department of Politics and International Relations] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201225051/http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/humanities/politics-and-international-relations/people |date=1 December 2010 }}. Retrieved 25 March 2010.</ref> In 2002, he served as president of the [[Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences]].<ref name="essex"/> |
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Parekh has also served on the [[Commission for Racial Equality]] (including a spell as vice-chairman) and has held membership of a number of bodies concerned with issues of racial equality and multiculturalism – most notably as Chairman of the [[Runnymede Trust|Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain]] from 1998 to 2000. The report of this body (often referred to as the "Parekh Report") has been the basis for much of the debate on multiculturalism in the UK in the early 21st century. |
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==Awards and honours== |
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Parekh became a [[fellow]] of the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in 1988, and of the [[Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences]] in 1999.<ref name="essex"/> |
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He was appointed a [[life peer]] in 2000 as Baron Parekh, of [[Kingston upon Hull]] in the East Riding of [[Yorkshire]].<ref name="essex"/> |
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He became a fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 2003,<ref>[http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2003/parekh_b.cfm Elections to the Fellowship > 2003 > Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh], retrieved 2010-03-25.</ref> |
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the same year in which he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the [[University of Essex]].<ref name="essex">[http://www.essex.ac.uk/honorary_graduates/or/2003/bhikhu-parekh-oration.aspx Honorary Graduates: Orations and responses – Lord Parekh of Kingston upon Hull], [[University of Essex]], July 9, 2003. Retrieved 2010-03-25.</ref> |
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He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the [[Government of India]] in 2007.<ref name="bba"/> |
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===House of Lords=== |
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On 11 July 2011, Parekh was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences (DSoc Sci) from [[Nottingham Trent University]]. |
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He was appointed a [[life peer]] on 10 May 2000 as '''Baron Parekh''', of [[Kingston upon Hull]] in the East Riding of [[Yorkshire]].<ref name="essex"/><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55847 |date=15 May 2000 |page=5315}}</ref> |
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Parekh sits in the Lords as a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] peer. From July 2001 to December 2003, he was a member of the [[Joint Committee on Human Rights]].<ref name="bio HoL">{{cite web |title=Lord Parekh |url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-parekh/2545 |website=UK Parliament |access-date=29 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Writings (selection)== |
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| title = The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain |
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*{{cite book|title=[[Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory]]|publisher=Harvard UP|year=2002|isbn=0-674-00995-9}} |
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| title = A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World |
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* He also wrote an account of "The Rushdie Affair and the British Press; Some Salutary Lessons" for the Commission for Racial Equality in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=The%20Rushdie%20Affair%20and%20the%20British%20Press:%20Some%20Salutary%20Lessons&author=B.%20Parekh&publication_year=1990|access-date=2020-06-25|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> |
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*''Colour, Culture and Consciousness: Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain'', Allen & Unwin, 1974, {{ISBN|0-04-301067-9}} |
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As well as this he wrote an account of "The Rushdie Affair and the British Press; Some Salutary Lessons" for the Commission for Racial Equality in 1990. |
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Parekh was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts]] (FRSA) in 1988, and a [[Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences]] (FAcSS) in 1999.<ref name="essex"/> In 2003, he was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA), the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Lord (bhikhu) Parekh |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/bhikhu-parekh-FBA |website=The British Academy |access-date=29 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2003/parekh_b.cfm Elections to the Fellowship > 2003 > Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606070922/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2003/parekh_b.cfm |date=6 June 2011 }}. Retrieved 25 March 2010.</ref> |
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*''Colour, Culture and Consciousness: Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain'', Allen & U 1974, ISBN 0-04-301067-9 |
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He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the [[University of Essex]] in 2003.<ref name="essex">[http://www.essex.ac.uk/honorary_graduates/or/2003/bhikhu-parekh-oration.aspx Honorary Graduates: Orations and responses – Lord Parekh of Kingston upon Hull], [[University of Essex]], 9 July 2003. Retrieved 25 March 2010.</ref> In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary DUniv From The University of Hull. On 11 July 2011, Parekh was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences (DSoc Sci) from [[Nottingham Trent University]]. On 20 July 2011, Parekh was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from [[Edge Hill University]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2011/07/lord-parekh-receives-honorary-award/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140222140109/http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2011/07/lord-parekh-receives-honorary-award/| archive-date = 2014-02-22| title = Lord Parekh receives honorary award - News}} </ref> He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Bristol in July 2022. |
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He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the [[Government of India]] in 2007.<ref name="bba"/> |
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==Personal life== |
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Parekh has three sons,<ref name=whoswho/> including [[Anant Parekh]], they were all awarded [[scholarship]]s to study at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=hull>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/first-hull-prestigious-royal-society-3358877|title=Man becomes first from Hull to be inducted into prestigious group|first=Barnabas|last=Stephenson|date=September 25, 2019|website=hulldailymail.co.uk|publisher=[[Hull Daily Mail]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101071655/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/first-hull-prestigious-royal-society-3358877|archive-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 00:54, 23 November 2024
The Lord Parekh | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 10 May 2000 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh 4 January 1935 Amalsad, Gujarat, India |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Political party | Labour |
Children | Anant Parekh |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Bombay London School of Economics |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | |
Notable works | Marx's Theory of Ideology (1982) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (2002) |
Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh (Baron Parekh; born 4 January 1935)[1] is a British political theorist, academic, and life peer. He is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords. He was Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull from 1982 to 2001, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster from 2001 to 2009. He served as president of the Academy of Social Sciences from 2003 to 2008.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Parekh was born in the village of Amalsad in the province of Gujarat, India;[2] his father was a goldsmith with a basic education.[3] Parekh was admitted to the University of Bombay at the age of 15,[2] and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1954 and a Master's in 1956. He began his graduate studies at the London School of Economics in 1959, and received his PhD in 1966.[4]
Career
[edit]He taught at the London School of Economics and at the University of Glasgow before finding a long-term position at the University of Hull.[4] Between 1981 and 1984 he was Vice-Chancellor at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India.[2][4] He also held the Centennial Professorship in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics[2] and a professorship of political philosophy at the University of Westminster.[5] In 2002, he served as president of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.[4]
Parekh has also served on the Commission for Racial Equality (including a spell as vice-chairman) and has held membership of a number of bodies concerned with issues of racial equality and multiculturalism – most notably as Chairman of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain from 1998 to 2000. The report of this body (often referred to as the "Parekh Report") has been the basis for much of the debate on multiculturalism in the UK in the early 21st century.
House of Lords
[edit]He was appointed a life peer on 10 May 2000 as Baron Parekh, of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[4][6]
Parekh sits in the Lords as a Labour Party peer. From July 2001 to December 2003, he was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.[7]
Publications
[edit]- Bentham's Political Thought. Croom Helm. 1973. ISBN 0-85664-037-9.
- Marx's Theory of Ideology. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. 1982. p. 256. ISBN 0-8018-2771-X.
- Colonialism, Tradition and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's Political Discourse. Sage. 1989. ISBN 0-8039-9605-5.
- Gandhi's Political Philosophy. A critical examination. Macmillan. 1989. p. 246. ISBN 0-333-54765-9.
- The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. Profile Books. 2000. ISBN 1-86197-227-X.
- Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford Paperbacks. 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-285457-5.
- Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. Harvard UP. 2002. ISBN 0-674-00995-9.
- European Liberalism and 'the Muslim Question': Does Intercultural Dialogue Make Sense? (ISIM Papers). Amsterdam University Press. 2008. ISBN 9789053560877.
- A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World. Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4039-0647-2.
- He also wrote an account of "The Rushdie Affair and the British Press; Some Salutary Lessons" for the Commission for Racial Equality in 1990.[8]
- Colour, Culture and Consciousness: Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain, Allen & Unwin, 1974, ISBN 0-04-301067-9
Awards and honours
[edit]Parekh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1988, and a Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 1999.[4] In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[9][10]
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex in 2003.[4] In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary DUniv From The University of Hull. On 11 July 2011, Parekh was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences (DSoc Sci) from Nottingham Trent University. On 20 July 2011, Parekh was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Edge Hill University.[11] He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Bristol in July 2022.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2007.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Parekh has three sons,[1] including Anant Parekh, they were all awarded scholarships to study at the University of Oxford.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Anon (2003). "Parekh". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c d e Biography Archived 13 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine as the speaker for the Justice KT Desai Memorial Lecture 2009, Bombay Bar Association. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ "A lord with a rainbow notion", Times Higher Education, 13 October 2000.
- ^ a b c d e f g Honorary Graduates: Orations and responses – Lord Parekh of Kingston upon Hull, University of Essex, 9 July 2003. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ People – University of Westminster Department of Politics and International Relations Archived 1 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ "No. 55847". The London Gazette. 15 May 2000. p. 5315.
- ^ "Lord Parekh". UK Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Professor Lord (bhikhu) Parekh". The British Academy. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ Elections to the Fellowship > 2003 > Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
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- 1935 births
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Academics of the University of Hull
- Academics of the University of Westminster
- British political philosophers
- Indian emigrants to England
- Labour Party (UK) life peers
- Living people
- People from Vadodara
- Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- Recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
- Life peers created by Elizabeth II
- British people of Indian descent
- British people of Gujarati descent