Rajni kothari biography meaning
Rajni Kothari (16 August – 19 January ) was an Indian political scientist, political theorist, academic and writer.!
Eminent political scientist Rajni Kothari, founder of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, author of critical works on India, democracy, politics.
Professor Rajni Kothari (1928-2015): A Personal and Public Tribute
As stated by the author in the title this is a tribute to one of the pioneers of political science in India.
I had a rare privilege of working with Professor Rajni Kothari in the Department of Political Science in the University of Delhi for about half a decade in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a new Reader in the Department, I was overawed by his towering intellectual presence. Yet he had a way of putting anyone in his contact at ease by his unassuming but somewhat serious demeanour partly lightened by a wry smile.
One day in the commodious chamber of the Head of the Department in the Arts Faculty Main Building where he was seated on the sofa, I dared to present to him my just published book Split in a Predominant Party: The Indian National Congressin 1969 (1981) with the inscribed note ‘To Professor