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| 2007 | The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education. Delhi: Oxford University Press |
| 2000 | Translated, with an afterword. Mai: a novel by Geetanjali Shree. Delhi:Kali for Women |
| 1994 | Edited. Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia |
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| Articles and Chapters: |
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| 2008 | "Dhanvanthi Rama Rau" and "Manikuntala Sen." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | "Gender in the Madrasas." In Jamal Malik, ed. Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? NY: Routledge |
| 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 |
| 2005 | "Mothers and Non-Mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in India". Gender and History |
| 2004 | "Seasonality and Love for Indians in a Global Era" in Kalyan Krishna, ed., volume in honour of Professor Anand Krishna |
| 2004 | "Women and Family in South Asia" in Encyclopaedia of Islam and Women |
| 2003 | "Consumption and Lifestyle" in The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, eds., Veena Das, T.N. Madan, and Andre Beteille |
| 2003 | "The Ganga at Banaras" in Amita Bavaskar, ed. Waterlines: the Penguin Anthology of River Writings. Penguin |
| 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 | "Widows, Education and Social Change". EPW
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