♣“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. 2012.

♣ (with Judith Heyer) “The Challenge of Positive Discrimination in India” in Graham Brown, Arnim Langer and Frances Stewart, eds. Debating Affirmative Action.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012.

♣“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, 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.

♣ The Election Game” in Ira Pande, ed. India 60: Towards a New Paradigm. (Harper Collins India with the India International Centre, 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.

♣“A Malevolent Embrace? The BJP and the Muslims in the Parliamentary Election of 2004” in Mushirul Hasan, ed. Muslims in a Secular Society. (Manohar, New Delhi, 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.

♣     (co-authored with Bishnu Mohapatra) “The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes” in Nanda P. Wanasundera, ed. Protection of Minority Rights and Diversity. (The International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 2004)

♣  “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.

♣“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.

♣  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.

♣ “Balancing Political and Ecological Values” in Mathew Humphrey, ed. Political Theory and the Environment: A Reappraisal. Frank Cass, 2001.

♣“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.

♣“India” in Yamamoto Tadashi, ed. Governance and Civil Society in a Global Age. (Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo, 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

♣“Ethics and Biodiversity” in S. Shantharam and Jane F. Montgomery, eds. Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biodiversity: Scientific and Ethical Issues for Sustainable Development.  Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi, 1999.

♣“Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy” in Mushirul Hasan, ed. Islam, Communities and the Nation: Muslim Identities in South Asia and Beyond. Manohar, New Delhi, 1998.

♣ “Politics and the Popular Cinema" in   H.S Gill, ed. Structures of  Signification,  Volume II, Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, 1991.