Prof. Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi
Prof. Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi from India was born in 1935. He is married and has two children. He is a professor for history and political science and dean of the faculty at the University of Illinois, as well as visiting professor in the study programme for the South East Asian region and the Middle East at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is co-president of the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation in Gurgaon, India, as well as a contributor to the Indian dailies "The Hindu" and "The Hindu" and "The Hindustan Times".
Important Dates:
1964 - 1981
Editor in chief of "Himmat" in Bombay
1984 - 1985
Member of the Woodrow Center for Scientists in Washington
1985 - 1987
Editor with the "Indian Express" in Madras
1990
Head of the Indian Delegation at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva
1990 - 1992
Member of the Indian Senate
1992 - 2000
Professor at the Centre for Political Research in New Delhi
since 1997
Several Tenures as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Illinois and California as well as at the Emory University
2009 - 2010
President of „Initiatives of Change International“
Prof. Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi is and author and renowned human rights activist. He is committed to the struggle for peace between Hindus and Moslems in this Indian home country. In 2000, he was awarded the Indian Award of the Sahitya Academy for his contribution to literature. He holds several honorary professorships as well as honorary doctorates from the universities of Osh in Kirghizia, Calgary and Tokyo.
Publications:
Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badshah of the Pakhtuns, Viking; Revenge & Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, Penguin, 1999; The Rajaji Story, Penguin, 1997; The Good Boatman: A Portrait of Gandhi, Viking, 1995; Patel: A Life, Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1990; and Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim Encounter, SUNY, 1987.
[June 2011]