Reflections: Contemporary Challenges, Personalities, and Conundrums

Margaret Chatterjee taught philosophy at Delhi University from 1956 to 1990, holding a chair in philosophy during part of this time. During her tenure at Delhi she took time off to be Professor of Comparative Religion at Visva-Bharati, Santinikeran for a year. She has held Visiting Professorships at Drew and Calgary Universities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bryn Mawr College, and was Visiting Scholar in residence at Pendle Hill, Pa. She was Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Simla from 1986 to 1989, Spalding Visiting Fellow in Indian Philosophy and Religion at Wolfson College, Oxford in 1991, and from 1992-98 taught philosophy at Westminster College, Oxford. Formerly President of the International Society for Metaphysics, she delivered the Teape Lectures in the University of Cambridge in 1984. She has been researching on Gandhi’s life and thought for many years and has lectured on this subject in many countries. Her publications include Gandhi’s Religious Thought (Macmillan and Notre Dame, 1983) and Gandhi and His Jewish Friends (Macmillan, 1992).