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(born 27 November 1954) is a noted
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, who was professor of political theory at the
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, Delhi. His works on political theory,
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and
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have evoked sharp debates. He is Honorary Fellow and Founder Director, Parekh Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS (
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) Delhi. He has been former Director of the Centre between 2007-2014. Faculty, Rajeev Bhargava
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(CSDS)
He is also Honorary fellow,
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Education

He received his B.A. degree in economics from the
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, followed by M.Phil. and D.Phil. from
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Career

Bhargava started his academic career at St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1979, in the following year he joined the
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, Delhi where he worked till 2005, when he joined Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi as a senior fellow and from 2007-2014, was its director. He formally retired in 2019 but continues to be an Honorary Fellow and Director of its Parekh Institute of Indian Thought. Over the years, he has been faculty fellow in ethics at
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, Leverhulme Fellow at
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, senior fellow at Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, fellow, Wissenschaftkolleg, Berlin, fellow, Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, visiting fellow of the
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, Berggruen Fellow, CASBS, Stanford,
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, China and
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between 2015-2017, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Social Justice, ACU, Sydney and held the Asia Chair at Sciences Po Paris in 2006. In 2022, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Multiple Secularities project, University of Leipzig. Bhargava writes a regular column for the Indian national daily,
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. He also served on the Social Sciences jury for the
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in 2019. in 2009, Bhargava was awarded the UGC national award for his contribution to political science and in 2011, the
Malcolm Adiseshiah Malcolm Sathiyanathan Adiseshiah (18 April 1910 – 21 November 1994), was an Indian development economist and educator. In 1976 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award. In 1998, UNESCO created the Malcolm A ...
award for his contribution to the social sciences.


Selected works

* Individualism in Social Science, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992) This book offers a balanced, subtle critique of methodoloigical individualism. * Secularism and its critics, (Oxford University Press, 1998) The first major anthology of its kind that sparked international academic interest in secularism. * ''Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy'' (OUP, 1999

This book looks into the cultural dimension of political and political dimensions of identity and culture. * ''Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution'' (OUP, 2008

This book examines Indian constitution from the perspective of political theory. * ''What is Political Theory why do we need it?'' (OUP, Delhi, 2010

In this book Bhargava clarifies concepts like secularism, multiculturalism, socialism, individualism and ethnocentrism etc. * ''The Promise of India's secular democracy'' (OUP, Delhi, 2010

This book explores the politics of secularism in India. * ''Secular States and Religious Diversity'' (UBC Press, Vancouver, 2013). He gave the concept of Principled Distance model of secularism as an alternative model to be more suitable for a heterogeneous society like India. * Politics, Ethics and the Self: Re-reading Gandhi's Hind Swaraj, ( Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2022). Based on a conference on Hind Swaraj's centenary. Puts together essays by the most eminent contemporary writers on Gandhi. * " Between Hope and Despair: 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India" ( Bloomsbury, New Delhi, 2023). This book, written for a wider, non-academic readership, is on the crisis of India's collective ethical identity. * "Bridging the Two worlds: Comparing classical political thought and statecraft in India and Chinaa (ed with Amitabh Acharya,Daniel Bell and Yan Xuetong), California University Press, 2023.


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Centre for the Study of Developing Societies The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) is an Indian research institute for the social sciences and humanities. It was founded in 1963 by Rajni Kothari and is largely funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research Govt ...
(CSDS) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhargava, Rajeev 20th-century Indian economists 1954 births Living people Indian political philosophers Indian political writers Delhi University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University Academic staff of Delhi University Centre for Political Studies (CPS), Jawaharlal Nehru University