(Director)
Rajeev Bhargava obtained his BA degree in Economics from the University
of Delhi and M.Phil and D.Phil from Oxford University.
He is currently Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, He is also the Director of the
CSDS programme on Social and Political Theory. He has previously
been Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and between
2001-2005 held the chair in Political theory and Indian political
thought at the University of Delhi and was the Head of its
Department of Political Science..
He has been a Senior fellow in Ethics at Harvard
University, Visiting fellow of the British Academy, CR Parekh
Fellow at the CSDS, Delhi, a Leverhulme fellow at the University
of Bristol, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at
Jerusalem and Distinguished Resident scholar, Institute of Religion,
Public life and Toleration, Columbia University, NY. . He has
held the Asia Chair at Science Po, Paris in the summer of 2006.
His publications include Individualism in Social Science,
(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992,) Secularism and its Critics ed.
(OUP, New Delhi, 1998), Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy,
(ed. with A. Bagchi and R. Sudarshan, OUP 1999) and Transforming India,
(ed. With Francine Frankel et. al, OUP 2000) and Politics and Ethics of
the Indian Constitution (ed.) OUP, 2008. He is currently working on a
book on Secularism. He has contributed to several international books and
journals including the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.and the Oxford
Handbook of Political Theory. He was a consultant to the UNDP report on Cultural Liberty.
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