♣“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.

♣“The Challenge of Positive Discrimination in India” (co-author Judith Heyer). CRISE Working Paper 55, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, University of Oxford. February 2009.

♣“Left Behind? Women, Politics and Development in Contemporary India” in Brown Journal of World Affairs. Vol. 14, No. 2. Spring/Summer 2008.

♣“New Directions in Theorising Social Accountability” in IDS Bulletin (IDS, Sussex) Vol. 38, No. 6. 2008.

♣“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)

♣“Whatever Happened to the Argumentative Indian?” in Seminar 569: India 2006. (January 2007)

♣“Revisiting Nationalism” in the Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XLI, No. 42. October 21-27, 2006.

♣“Engendering Local Democracy: The Impact of Quotas for Women in India’s Panchayats” in Democratization. Volume 13, No. 1. February 2006.

♣“Democratic Dogmas and Disquiets” in Seminar, India 2005. January 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)

♣     “Do the New States Tell a Story about Indian Federalism? Some Comments on Maya Chadda’s `Integration through Internal Reorganization: Containing Ethnic Conflict in India” in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, vol.2, no.2, January 2003.

♣ "Democracy and Social Capital in the Central Himalaya: A Tale of Two Villages" in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXVI, No.8, February 24-March 2, 2001.

♣“Representing the Disadvantaged: Women, Minorities and Dalits in the Indian Parliament” in Nepal Journal of Contemporary Studies, Vol. II, No.2, September 2002.

♣"Uttaranchal: Same Wine, Same Bottle, New Label?" in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXV, No. 49, December 2-8, 2000

♣“What Elections Are Not About” in Seminar, No. 480, August, 1999.

♣“Displaced Persons and the Discourse of Rights” in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII, No.5, January 31, 1998.

♣“People and Polity: Substantive Aspects of Democracy” in Rukmini Sekhar, ed. Making a Difference. Spic Macay Publications, New Delhi, 1997.

♣“Environment and Development in the Age of Neo-Liberalism” in Man and Development, Volume XIX, No.3, September 1997.

♣ “Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (formerly South Asia Bulletin). Vol. XVII, No.2, 1997.

♣“Democracy and Development: The Problem” Seminar, March 1997

♣“The Governance Agenda: Making Democratic Development Dispensable” in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXII, No.8, February 22-28, 1997.

♣"The Gentle Leviathan: Welfare and the Indian State".  Social Scientist.  Volume 22, Nos. 9-12, September-December, 1994. Also published in Mohan Rao, ed. Disinvesting in Health: The World Bank's Prescriptions for Health. Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1999.

♣"Rights, Justice and Common Property Resources" in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXIX, Number 28, July 9, 1994.

♣"The State and the New Liberal Agenda in India" in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXIX, Number 19, May 7, 1994. (co-author)

♣"Parliamentary Response to Drought 1987" in the Indian Journal of Political Science, Volume 54, Nos. 3 and 4, July- December, 1993 (co-author)

♣"The Future of Democracy" in Seminar.  Annual Number, January, 1992.