Among those who have been resident scholars and have taken up the prestigious Rajni Kothari Chair are Charles Douglas Lummis, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Sudipta Kaviraj, Gananath Obeyesekere, Rounaq Jahan, Abdellah Hammoudi, Charles Taylor, Arif Dirlik, Shahid Amin, Alfred Stepan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Mahmood Mamdani and Prasenjit Duara.
