BOOKS
Vikram Seth: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2008.
Untouchable Saints: an Indian Phenomenon, Manohar, New Delhi, 2005 (co-edited with Eleanor Zelliot).
On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela, Alta Mira Press, New York, Toronto and Oxford, in cooperation with the International Sacred Literature Trust, UK, 2005. This is a revised edition with additional translations.
On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela (1st edition), The Book Review Literary Trust, New Delhi, 2002.
WORK IN PROGRESS
An Anthology of Varkari Poetry, in collaboration with Chakradhar Saswade, Penguin Books, New Delhi.
The Third Eye (a translation of Jotiba Phule’s 1855 play Tritiya Ratna), Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Language as Contestation: Phule’s Interventions in Education in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra” in A Multilingual Nation edited by Rita Kothari, Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Modern Quests, Ancient Lore: Reading Poetry in English from Northeast India”, in Emergent Identities Literature edited by Margaret L. Pachuau and T. Dhanajit Singh, New Delhi: Headword, 2016.
"Dissenting Voices: Continuities in the Varkari Tradition" in Devotion and Dissent in Indian History edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp.145-168.
“Translating Stigma in the Postcolonial Context: an analysis of Bharat Sasane’s short story ‘Mai Dukh ki Lambi Raat” in Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience edited by Someswar Sati and GJV Prasad, Routledge (Forthcoming).
“Poetry amidst Violence in Northeast India” in Political Communication in India: Actors, Structures and Processes edited by Lion Koenig, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming).
“Chokhamela” in Knut A. Jacobsen et al eds. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Vol. IV, Leiden, Brill, 2012.
“The Bharuds of Eknath: Performance, Humour and Satire” in Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels eds. Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity Wiesbaden, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2012.
“Absence as Presence: the construction of ‘subalternity’, in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Choromosome”, in Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh and Ujjwal Jana eds. Subaltern Vision: a study in Postcolonial Indian English Novel, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
“Chokhamela”, in Andrew Schelling ed. The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011.
“Views from a Different India: Not Hinglish but Nagamese”, in Rupert Snell and Rita Kothari eds. Chutneyfying English: the Phenomenon of Hinglish, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2011.
“Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and the Politics of Power”, in Supriya Choudhuri and Rimi B. Chatterjee eds. The Writer’s Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011. (with Arpana Nath)
“Kanakadasa: The Philosopher-Poet of the Haridasa Tradition of Karnataka”, in Monika Horstmann ed., Bhakti in Current Research Manohar, New Delhi, 2006.
“Devdasi”, The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex work, in Melissa Ditmore ed., Greenwood Press, USA, 2006.
“Kanhopatra”, The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex work, in Melissa Ditmore ed., Greenwood Press, USA, 2006.
“The Humble Administrator’s Garden: Mapping Spaces”, in R.K. Dhawan and Pramod Nayar eds. Vikram Seth: A Critical Response, Prestige Books, New Delhi, 2005.
“Bhakti as Protest”, in James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux eds. Culture and the State: Alternative Interventions, CRC Humanities Studio, Edmonton, AB, 2004.
“The Self, the Poem and the World: Jayant Mahapatra” , in Pramod Nayar ed. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Critical Studies, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2000.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS
“Education and its Contestatory Histories: Jotiba Phule’s Interventions in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra”, dialog, No. 29 (Spring 2016): 46-64.
“Mahatma Jotiba Phule: Satyashodhak Samaj and Sarvajanik Satya Dharma”, Café Dissensus, Issue No. 27, July, 2016.
“Representations of Landscape in Poetry from Northeast India: Some Reflections”, dialog (Forthcoming with Rajashree Bargohain).
“The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Motherhood and Sexuality in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughers”, IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. iv, no. 1, 22-31, 2012 (with Arpana Nath).
“Is it Possible to be Dalit in Medieval India?”, JSL, spring xv, 25-38, 2011.
“Chokhamela the Dalit poet-saint”, Samaj Prabodhan, vol.xx, no.2, 14-29, 2011 (Journal in Marathi).
“‘Maximum City’: Mumbai, Spatial Politics and Representation”, Spaces and Flows: an International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, vol.1 (3), 151-166, 2011 (with Kalpana Bora).
“The Poetry of Vikram Seth: Anti-romantic, Postmodern or Simply Kitsch?”, JSL, autumn xiv, 39-46, 2011.
“The Real Seat of Taste: Food, Consumption and Communication in Gandhi”, The Book Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 13, 5-15, 2008.
“Imperial Frontier to National Border: Narration, History and Identity in Ghosh’s The Glass Palace”, JSL, ix, 40-52, 2008 (with Abhigyan Prasad).
“Bhakti as Protest”, Journal of Sikh Studies, Vol. XXIX, no. 1, 29-36, 2005.
“Repositioning Borders: a reading of the Glass Palace”, Critical Practice, Vol.X, No.1, 52-59, 2003.
“Chokhamela: Five Poems” Chandrabhaga, New Series, No.3, 123-26, 2001.
“The Poetry of Chokhamela: an Introduction” The Book Review, Vol. XXV, No.2, 6-12, 2001.
“Gandhi in South Africa”, Journal for Contemporary Thought, No. 13, 87-98, 2001.
“Of Uncritical Largess: Redefining the Postcolonial”, Journal for Contemporary Thought, No. 9, 121-28, 1999.
REVIEWS (SINCE 2002)
Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems of Rabindranath Tagore The Book Review, vol. xxvi, No.3, March 2002.
So Far, The Book Review, vol. xxvi, No.3, March 2002.
Gandhi, Freedom and Self-Rule, The Book Review vol. xxvii, no.1, January 2003.
The Stepchild: Angaliyat, The Book Review, vol xxviii, no.12, December 2004.
The Sacred Spaces, The Book Review, vol. xxv, no.4, April 2004.
Spoonful of Grey, The Book Review, vol.xxix, no. 5, May 2005.
Soul Force: Gandhi’s Writings on Peace, The Book Review, vol.xxix, no.7, July 2005.
Debating Gandhi: A Reader, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3, March 2007.
Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians: Essays, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3, March 2007.
Friends of Gandhi: Correspondence of Mahatma Gandhi with Esther Feaering et al, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3, March 2007.
Harilal Gandhi: a Life, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 9, September 2007.
In the Tracks of the Mahatma: the Making of a Documentary, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 9, September 2007.
Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 2, February 2008.
Gandhi’s Diagnostic Approach Rethought, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 2, February 2008.
Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and History, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 6, June 2008.
B.R. Ambedkar: Perspectives on Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 6, June 2008.
Gandhi: Going to Wipe Their Tears, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
The Men Who Killed Gandhi, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
Goodbye to Gandhi: Travels in the New India, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony, The Book Review, vol. xxxiv, no. 5, May 2010.
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, South Asian Diaspora, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011.
The Cult of Vitthal: A Confluence and a Synthesis, The Book Review, vol. xxxvi, no. 12, December 2012.
Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi Cinema, South Asian Diaspora, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013.
Confluence of Thought: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., by Bidyut Chakrabarty, OUP India, in The Book Review, Volume xxxix, number 1, January 2015, p.7.
Hundreds of Streets to the Palace of Lights: Short Stories by S. Diwakar (OUP), The Book Review, Vol XL, No. 4, April 2016, pp. 24.
Contemporary Hinduism, ed. by P. Pratap Kumar (Acumen Publishing) South Asian Diaspora, 9: 1, 2017, 108-110.
The Valley of Flowers: An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya by Frank Smythe (Speaking Tiger), The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2, February, 2017, pp. 66-67.
Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins ed. by Tapan Basu, Indranil Acharya and A. Mangai (OUP), The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 7-8, July-August 2017.
Half-Open Window by Ganesh Matkari [transl. Jerry Pinto] (Speaking Tiger), The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 9, pp. 22-23, September 2017.
President K.R.Narayanan releasing On the Threshold at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2002.