Edited Volumes
Review of Labour: Comparative Perspectives, Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal Economic and Political Weekly, May 2000
Occasional Paper Series,
Volume One, Co-edited with Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Andrew Rotman,
Institute for Culture and Consciousness, The University of
Chicago, December 1993
Journal Articles
“Contesting Class: Gender, Community and the Politics of Labor in a Calcutta Jute Mill,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Volume 26,4 ( Oct-Dec): 29-43, 1994 [Click for PDF]“Beyond Public Spaces and Private Spheres: Gender, Family and Working Class Politics in India,” Feminist Studies, 23, 3 (Fall): 525-547, 1997 [Click for PDF]
“Culture, Structure and Working Class Politics,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXIII, 52 (December 26): 53-60,1998 [Click for PDF]
“Reading ‘India’s Bandit Queen’: A Trans/National Feminist Perspective on the Discrepancies of Representation,”Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society, 25, 1 (Autumn): 123-152, 1999 [Click for PDF]
Reprinted in Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol, eds. Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the ‘Real’, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2001
“Nationalizing ‘the Global’: Media Images, Economic Reform and the Middle Class in India,” Media, Culture and Society, Vol 22, 5 (September): 611-628, 2000 [Click for PDF]
“Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol XX, Nos 1 &2: 88-104, 2000 [Click for PDF]
“Susanne Hoeber Rudolph: Transforming the Boundaries of Political Science,” PS: Politics and Political Science, October 2003. [Click for PDF]
“Gender and Labor in Comparative Historical Perspective,” Journal of Women’s History, 15 (4) Winter: 207-216, 2004 [Click for PDF]
“The Politics of Forgetting: Class Politics, State Power and the Restructuring of Urban Space in India,” Urban Studies, 41 (12): 2415-2430, 2004 [Click for PDF]
Reprinted in Brenda Yeoh and Yong Sook Lee, eds, Globalization and Forgotten Spaces, New York: Routledge, 2006
“Hegemonic Aspirations: New Middle Class Politics and India’s Democracy in Comparative Perspective,” co-authored with Patrick Heller, Critical Asian Studies Dec 2006 [Click for PDF]
To be reprinted in Ron Herring and Rina Agarwala, eds., What Ever Happened to Class? New York: Routledge, 2007 (in press)
Book Chapters
“Gender and the Management of Globalization in India” in Working Paper Series, Institute for Research on Women, Volume 1, 1999
“Displacing Women Workers: On the Margins of Working Class Politics in Postcolonial India,” in Arjan de Haan and Samita Sen, eds., A Case for Labour History, Calcutta: A.K. Bagchi, 2000
“Rethinking Globalization: Gender and the Nation in India,” in Marianne de Koven, ed. Feminist Locations: Global/Local/Theory/Practice in the Twenty-First Century, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001
“Asia,” in Mary Hawkesworth and Maurice Kogan, eds., Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, Second Edition, New York: Routledge, 2003: 1198-1208 [Click for PDF]
“Class, Space and the State in India : The Politics of Empire in Comparative Perspective” in Gilbert Gonzalez, et al eds., Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender and Migration, New York: Routledge, 2004: 89-104
“The Boundaries of Terror: Feminism, Human Rights and the Politics of Global Crisis” in Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol, eds., Just Advocacy? Transnational Feminism, Women’s Human Rights and the Politics of Representation, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005: 56-74 [Click for PDF]
“Violence, Representation and the Nation” in Judith Gerson and Diane Wolf, eds., Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories, Identities and Jewish Diasporas, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007: 337-343 [Click for PDF]
Book Reviews
Ujjwal Singh, The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India, Sage Publications, 2007, Critical Asian Studies 2007 (December) forthcoming
Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism, 2001, Journal of Asian Studies, 62, 2. (May, 2003): 683-685.
Ali Amjad, Labour Legislation and Trade Unions in India and Pakistan, Oxford University Press, 2001, Journal of Asian Studies, 62, 2 (May): p647-649, 2003.
S. Laurel Weldon, Protest, Policy and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National Comparison. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Perspectives on Politics, Vol 1. 2003.
Zoya Hasan, Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. American Political Science Review 93, 4, December 1999
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, C.1850-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Economic and Political Weekly, 34, 29, July 17, 1999: 1991-1993
Barbara Southard, The Women’s Movement and Colonial Politics In Bengal: The Quest for Political Rights, Education and Social Reform Legislation, 1921-36. New Delhi: Manohar Press, 1995 and Dagmar Engels, Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal, 1890-1939. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. Journal of Asian Studies. 57, 1, 1998: 263-265
Brinda Rao, Dry Wells and Deserted Women: Gender, Ecology And Agency in India. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 1996. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. Volume 30 (January-March) 1998
Ross Mallick, Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1977.Cambridge South Asian Studies 54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 and Ross Mallick, Indian Communism: Opposition, Collaboration and Institutionalization. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Journal of Asian Studies, 55 4, 1996: 1041-1043
Arjan de Haan, UnSettled Settlers: Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta, Hilvesum: Veroren, 1994. Journal of Asian Studies, 54, 4 (November), 1995: 1125-112.
