Monographs
Region, Nation, ‘Heartland’: Uttar Pradesh in India’s Body-Politic, New Delhi & Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2006 [in hardback & paperback editions].
(co-authored with Tai Yong Tan) The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, (Routledge Series in the History of Modern Asia 3) New York & London, Routledge, October 2000, hardback edition & paperback edition February 2002.
Edited Works
[co-edited with Tai Yong Tan] Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia {London, Routledge, 2008, in 3 volumes under the ‘Routledge Major Works’ series]
Vol. 1: History Writing, Violence, Borders
Vol. 2: Gender, Minorities, Memories
Vol. 3: Identities, Geopolitics, Reconciliation
Articles
‘Partition of the Indian Subcontinent’ in Gita Dharampal Frick, Rachel Dwyer and Jahanvi Phalkey, edited, Keywords in Modern Indian Studies, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2013 forthcoming).
‘Beyond the Himalayan Pearl Harbour’, History Today, Vol. 62 Issue 11, September 2012. [essay under the feature ‘History Matters’ on the 50 anniversary of the India-China War of 1962]
‘Why Uttar Pradesh Lost its Shine’, Times of India, February 11, 2012. [op-ed piece by invitation]
(co-authored with K. Sridharan, R. Mukherji, R. Rai & P. Friedlander) Guide to Teaching and Learning of "A" Level India Studies, Singapore, Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Education, 2010. (This is a teaching guide to be used as a resource for the teaching of India Studies in Singapore schools.).
‘Regional Disparities in Uttar Pradesh and the Case for Reorganization’, in Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, edited, Uttar Pradesh: The Road Ahead, New Delhi: Academic Foundation in association with Observer Research Foundation, 2009, ed. 143 150.
"Le Gouvernment Indien Et La Diaspora", in Brij V Lal, Peter Reeves, Rajesh Rai, eds., Encyclopedie de la Diaspora Indienne, Paris: Les Editions Du Pacifique, 2008, pp. 82 89.
"Aryavarta", "Hind", or "Uttar Pradesh": the Postcolonial Naming and Framing of a "Region”, in Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, Andrew Sartori, edited, From the Colonial to the Postcolonial, India and Pakistan in Transition, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007).
‘Constructing the "Heartland": Uttar Pradesh in India's Body Politic', in Sudha Pai, edited, Political Process in Uttar Pradesh, Identity, Economic Reforms and Governance (New Delhi, Pearson Longman, 2007).
'In Aid of Civil Power: The Colonial Army in Northern India, c.1919 1942', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2004, pp. 41 68, Frank Cass Publishers, London, UK.
Region, Nation, ‘Heartland’: Uttar Pradesh in India’s Body-Politic, New Delhi & Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2006 [in hardback & paperback editions].
‘India's New Mantra: The Internet’, Current History, A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, 100, 645 (April 2001): 162-169.
Foreshadowing "Quit India": The Congress in Uttar Pradesh 1939-1941’, in Neera Chandhoke, edited, Mapping Histories, Essays Presented to Ravinder Kumar, Anthem Press, London, 2002.
‘From displacement to 'development': the East Punjab countryside after partition, 1947-67’ in D A Low and Howard Brasted, edited, Freedom, Trauma and Continuities, Northern India and Independence, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998. (Republished by Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 1998)
‘Divided Landscapes, Fragmented Identities: East Bengal Refugees and their Rehabilitation in India’, 1947-79’, in in D A Low and Howard Brasted, edited, Freedom, Trauma and Continuities, Northern India and Independence, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998. (Republished by Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 1998).
"‘Capitol landscapes’: the imprint of partition on South Asian capital cities’ Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya, edited, Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia, Volume 3, London: Routledge, 2008.