1. Bhikhu Chotalal Parekh is a British political theorist, academic, and life peer.
16 Facts About Bhikhu Parekh
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Bhikhu Parekh is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.
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Bhikhu Parekh was Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull from 1982 to 2001, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster from 2001 to 2009.
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Bhikhu Parekh served as president of the Academy of Social Sciences from 2003 to 2008.
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Bhikhu Parekh was admitted to the University of Bombay at the age of 15, and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1954 and a Master's in 1956.
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Bhikhu Parekh began his graduate studies at the London School of Economics in 1959, and received his PhD in 1966.
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Bhikhu Parekh taught at the London School of Economics and at the University of Glasgow before finding a long-term position at the University of Hull.
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Bhikhu Parekh held the Centennial Professorship in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and a professorship of political philosophy at the University of Westminster.
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Bhikhu Parekh was appointed a life peer on 10 May 2000 as Baron Parekh, of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Bhikhu Parekh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1988, and a Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences in 1999.
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Bhikhu Parekh was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex in 2003.
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On 11 July 2011, Bhikhu Parekh was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences from Nottingham Trent University.
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On 20 July 2011, Bhikhu Parekh was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Edge Hill University.
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Bhikhu Parekh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Bristol in July 2022.
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Bhikhu Parekh was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2007.
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Bhikhu Parekh has three sons, including Anant Bhikhu Parekh, they were all awarded scholarships to study at the University of Oxford.