| Books: |
| In preparation | A Woman of Many Parts: Memoirs |
| 1992 | Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press |
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| 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 |
| 2006 | The 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 |