Bhargava has held fellowships in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions, at the British Academy and at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.

Bhargava is also the honorary director of the advanced programme of social and political theory at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and professor of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the South Asia Editor of openDemocracy.

Bhargava is editor of Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions (2005) and co-editor of Transforming India (2000). He has also edited Secularism and its critics (1998) and co-edited Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (1999). He is author of Individualism in Social Science (1992).

Email: rbhargav@vsnl.com