Vice-President, American Political Science Association (2011-12)

Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The India Review.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Feminist Political Economy.

Member, Editorial Board of the Anthem Press (UK) book series Plurality in South Asia.

Jury Member of the New India Foundation Book Fellowship (since 2005)

Member, Advisory Board, Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament, a Leverhulme Trust programme at the Univeristy of Warwick, UK. (2008-11)

Member, Centre Advisory Review Group, The Centre for the Future State, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, U.K. (2002-2010)

Member, Commissioning Panel of the ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation), Phase 1 (2005) and Phase 2 (2010)

Member, Committee to Review the Indian Council of Social Science Research. (Chairman: Prof. A. Vaidyanathan) (2006-07)

Member, Central Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. (2004-09)

Served on selection committees for the Rhodes Scholarships, Inlaks Scholarships, and Chevening Scholarships; and on selection committees for faculty appointments at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.

Academic referee for Oxford University Press, Sage Publications, Anthem Press and several journals.