Rethinking Multiculturalism

BHIKHU PAREKH is Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull. A political theorist of international renown he has held visiting chairs at many of the top US universities as well as in Vienna and Barcelona. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Baroda and a member of India's University Grants Commission in the early 1980s. On his return to the UK he became Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equalty. He is currently chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain whose report will be launched by leading government ministers in autumn 2000. He was elected British Asian of the Year in 1992 and received the BBC's award for special lifetime achievement in 1999.

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Moral Monism - Forms of Pluralism - Contemporary Liberal Responses to Diversity - Conceptualising Human Beings - Understanding Culture - Reconstituting the Modern State - The Political Structure of Multicultural Society - Equality in a Multicultural Society - Logic of Intercultural Evaluation - Politics, Religion and Free Speech - Conclusion - Endnotes - Bibliography