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Professor Richard Bonney
has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Leicester since 1984. He founded the Centre for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism and the Institute for the Study of Indo-Pakistan Relations, both at the University of Leicester, respectively in 1997 and in 2001. He is the Editor of the South Asia History Academic Papers, eight volumes of which were published by Media House Publications, New Delhi, in February 2004. He was appointed Chairman of the Society for Inter-Cultural Understanding, Leicester (SICUL) in 2003. He is a non-stipendiary priest in the Church of England, and has served in the Parish of Knighton, Leicester, since 1996.
He is the author of Three Giants of South Asia: Gandhi, Ambedkar and Jinnah on Self-Determination (Leicester, 2002: INPAREL South Asian History Academic Papers, 5). ISSN 1475-178X. New Delhi, Media House
Publications, 2004. He is currently preparing a study entitled Jihād: The Idea of Just War from the Qur’ān to Bin Laden which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004. ISBN 1-409-3372-3
Topic: Human Rights in South Asia / Human Rights in India: An Overview
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