Rajeev Bhargava

Rajeev Bhargava
Bhargava at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2012
Born	(1954-11-27) November 27, 1954 (age 62)
Occupation	Former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (2005-2014); political theorist

Rajeev Bhargava (born November 27, 1954) is a noted Indian political theorist, who was professor of Political Theory at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His works on political theory, multiculturalism, identity politics and secularism have evoked sharp debates.

He is Senior Fellow and Former Director of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.

He received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, followed by M.Phil and D.Phil from Oxford University.

Bhargava started his academic career at St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1979, in the following year he joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi where he worked till 2005, when he joined Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi as a Senior Fellow and Former Director.

Over the years, he has remained Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University, Leverhulme Fellow at University of Bristol, Senior Fellow at Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Visiting Fellow of the British Academy, and held the Asia Chair at Sciences Po Paris in 2006