♣Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006

♣Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in   Contemporary India. Oxford University Press, Delhi. 1999. Paperback edition. 2001.

CO-AUTHORED

♣Co-author (with Martha Nussbaum, Amrita Basu and Yasmin Tambiah) Essays on Gender and Governance. United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi. 2003

♣Co-author (with  Kuldeep  Mathur)  Drought,   Policy  and  Politics  in  India.  Sage Publications, Delhi. 1993

EDITED

♣(Co-editor with Pratap Bhanu Mehta) The Oxford Companion to Politics in India. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2010. Paperback Student Edition, 2011

♣Democracy in India, ed. [Themes in Politics Series] Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2001. Paperback ed. 2009

♣Edited and introduced Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Indian Diary. Oxford University Press, Delhi. 1987; Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford. 1990

♣(Co-editor) Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond.  Oxford University Press, 2005

♣(Co-editor) Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience. Sage, New Delhi, 2004

♣(Co-editor) Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity. Sage Publications, Delhi. 2001