Methodology

Books:
In preparationA Woman of Many Parts: Memoirs
1992Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press
 
Articles and Chapters:
Forthcoming"The Ramlila Project: Indian Identities in an Age of Globalization." In William Ascher and John Heffron, ed. Change and Persistence in a Globalizing Society: The Case of Asia and the Pacific.
Forthcoming"A Postcolonial School in a Modern World." In Derek Mulenga, ed. Postcolonialism and Education: Challenging Traditions and Disrupting Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan
2006"The [no] Work and [no] Leisure World of Women in Assi, Banaras" in Lina Fruzzetti and Sirpa Tenhunen, eds.Culture, Power and Agency: Gender in Indian Ethnography Calcutta: Stri Publications
2006The Scholar and her Servants: Towards a Postcolonial Anthropology". India Review
2006"Provincialism in Modern India: the Multiple Narratives of Education and their Pain". Modern Asian Studies
2001"Languages, Families and the Plural Learning of the Nineteenth-century Intelligentsia" in N. Kumar, ed., Explorations in the Intellectual History of Colonial and Precolonial India. Special issue of Indian Economic and Social History Review (IESHR)
1995"The Many Faces of the Modern in Banaras" in P. Kaarsholm, ed., From Post- Traditional to Post-modern. Roskilde University: Occasional paper no 14
1994"Class and Gender Politics in the Ramlila" in William Sax, ed., The Play of the Gods. New York: Oxford University Press
1991"Urban Culture in India: the World of the Lower Classes" in Indu Banga, ed., The City in Indian History. Delhi: Manohar