Significant political theorist of multiculturalism and author of Rethinking Multiculturalism.

Political thinker Bhikhu Parekh has made significant and lasting contributions to both the political theory and public understanding of multiculturalism. His major work about multicultural political theory is Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (2000), a ground-breaking book exploring the prospects and possibilities for a theory of multiculturalism that stands outside the liberal tradition without embracing anti-liberalism, which commends pluralism without endorsing relativism and which emphasizes the importance of dialogue among different cultures and traditions. Meanwhile, he has contributed to public life in India and, especially, Britain, where he has served on the Commission for Racial Equality, became Chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, producing with colleagues what came...