Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull, UK, and was Visiting Professor at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and McGill University, USA. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books on political philosophy, including Rethinking Multiculturalism (2000). He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Political Studies and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Academy.

1. Introduction

2. The Concept of Rights

3. Human Rights and Moral Pluralism

4. Reason and Identity

5. Regulating Hate Speech

6. A Misconceived Discourse on Political Obligation

7. Liberal Democracy and National Minorities

8. A Critique of the Liberal Approach to Violence

9. Understanding Humiliation

10. Reflections on Multiculturalism

11. Common Belonging

12. A Multicultural Perspective on Secularism

13. Cultural Accommodation and the Criminal Law

14. Ethnocentricity of the Nationalist Discourse

15. Religious Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective