Bhikhu Parekh

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Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh

(1935-01-04) 4 January 1935 (age 89)
Amalsad,
University of Bombay
London School of Economics
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Notable works
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory
 (2002)

Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh, Baron Parekh,

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

Parekh was born in the village of Amalsad in the province of

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

He taught at 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

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

Awards and honours

Parekh was elected 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

Parekh has three sons,[1] including Anant Parekh, they were all awarded scholarships to study at the University of Oxford.[12]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30023. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "A lord with a rainbow notion", Times Higher Education, 13 October 2000.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ People – University of Westminster Department of Politics and International Relations Archived 1 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  6. ^ "No. 55847". The London Gazette. 15 May 2000. p. 5315.
  7. ^ "Lord Parekh". UK Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Professor Lord (bhikhu) Parekh". The British Academy. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  10. ^ Elections to the Fellowship > 2003 > Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  11. ^ "Lord Parekh receives honorary award - News". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  12. ^ Stephenson, Barnabas (25 September 2019). "Man becomes first from Hull to be inducted into prestigious group". hulldailymail.co.uk. Hull Daily Mail. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019.
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