* “A False Dichotomy? The Unresolved Tension between Universal and Differentiated Citizenship in India” in Oxford Development Studies. Volume 39, No. 2. June 2011
* “The Limits of Representative Democracy” in South Asia, Volume XXXII, No.3. December 2009.
* “The Challenge of Human Development: Inclusion or Democratic Citizenship” in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Vol. 10, No. 3. November 2009.
* “On Governance: Review Essay” in Current Sociology, 2007; 55; 126
* “Politics as Moral Persuasion: Civil Disobedience from Gandhi to the Present” in Foreign Affairs (Espanõl). (January 2007)
* “Engendering Local Democracy: The Impact of Quotas for Women in India’s Panchayats” in Democratization. Volume 13, No. 1. February 2006.
* “A Malevolent Embrace? The BJP and the Muslims in the Parliamentary Election of 2004” in The India Review. Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2004.
* “Balancing Political and Ecological Values” in Environmental Politics. Volume 10, No.1, Spring 2001.
* "Ethnic Diversity and the Nation-State" in Journal of Applied Philosophy. Volume 10, Number 2, 1993.
* "Drought Management in India: The Long-Term Perspective" in Disasters. Volume 16, No.1, March 1992. (Co- author)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
* “An Immense and (In)complete Democracy: A Tocquevillean Perspective on India’s Experiment with Democratic Citizenship” in Ira Katznelson and Partha Chatterjee, eds. Anxieties of Democracy. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. (forthcoming)
* “The transformation of citizenship in India in the 1990s and beyond” in Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge, eds. Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A GreatTransformation? Routledge, London. 2011.
* “Civil Society and Democracy in India” in The State of India’s Democracy, edited by Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner. The Johns Hopkins University Press and Journal of Democracy. 2007. Republished by Oxford University Press, Delhi. 2008.
* “A Democratic Deficit: Citizenship and Governance in the Era of Globalisation” in Kameshwar Choudhary, ed. Globalisation, Governance Reforms and Development in India. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 2007.
* “Ethnicity, Representation and the Governance of Public Institutions in India” in Yusuf Bangura, ed. Ethnic Inequalities and Public Sector Governance. Palgrave Macmillan and UNRISD, London. 2006.
* “Politics: The BJP Falls from Power” in Philip Oldenburg and Alyssa Ayres, ed. India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? M.E. Sharpe, in cooperation with the Asia Society, New York. 2005.
* “The Right to Vote and Democracy” in Rhona K.M. Smith and Christien van den Anker (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. Hodder Arnold, London, 2005.
* Democracy and Social Capital in the Central Himalaya: A Tale of Two Villages" in Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bishnu N. Mohapatra and Sudha Pai, eds. Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 2004.
* “Locating Gender in the Governance Discourse” in Martha Nussbaum, Amrita Basu, Yasmin Tambiah and Niraja Gopal Jayal Essays on Gender and Governance. United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi, 2003.
* “Ethics, Politics, Biodiversity: A View from the South” in Andrew Light and Avner de-Shalit, eds. Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003.
* “Reinventing the State: The Emergence of Alternative Models of Governance in India in the 1990s” in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Sudha Pai (editors) Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 2001.
* “Balancing Political and Ecological Values” in Mathew Humphrey, ed. Political Theory and the Environment: A Reappraisal. Frank Cass, 2001.
* "The State and Democracy in India" in Vinita Damodaran and Maya Unnithan-Kumar, ed. Postcolonial India: History, Politics and Culture. Manohar, New Delhi, 2000
