Forthcoming - Postscript: Looking Back to Look Ahead. In Curried Cultures: Globalization, Indian Food and the Urban Middle Class. Tulasi Srinivas and Krishnendu Ray, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2012 - Introduction. In Caste, Hierarchy, and Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont’s Contributions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2012 - Changing India-West Cultural Dialectics (India and the West, a symposium special number), New Literary History 40(2).
2012 - Postscript: Looking Back to Look Ahead. In Curried Cultures: Globalization, Indian Food and the Urban Middle Class. Tulasi Srinivas and Krishnendu Ray, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2011 - The Unch-nich Challenge in Life: Changing Locations, Forces and Meanings. In Caste in Life: Experiencing Inequalities. D. Shyam Babu and R. S. Khare, eds. Delhi: Pearson Education.
2011 - Caste in Life: Encounters, Meanings and Challenges. (With D. Shyam Babu). New Delhi: Pearson Education.
2009 - Caste, Hierarchy and Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont’s Contributions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2009 - Afterword. In Caste, Hierarchy, and Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont’s Contributions. R. S. Khare, ed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2009 - India and the West: Issues in Globalizing History and Culture. New Literary History 40 (2:Spring 2009). (With Ralph Cohen).
2008 - Anthropology, India, and the Academic Self: A Disciplinary Journey Between Two Cultures over Four Decades. India Review 7 (4):349-377.
2006 - Caste, Hierarchy, and Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont’s Contributions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2005 - Strands in Cultural Imagination: Interpreting Scholarly Itineraries in Indian Anthropology. Eastern Anthropologist 58 (1): 1-25. (D. N. Majumdar Memorial Lecture).
2005 - “Dalits’ Changing Challenges: Progressive Social Discourses and New Communication Strategies. Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (4): 1-25. New Delhi.
2004 - Anna. In The Hindu World. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, eds. New York: Routledge .
2002 - Two Disengaged Cultures, Two Distant Democracies: Anthropological Notes on Indian and American Political Ethos. In India and the U. S. in a Changing World. Ashok Kapoor, Harold A. Gould, and Arthur G. Rubinoff, eds. Pp. 245-296. London: Sage Publications.
1999 - Perspectives on Islamic Law, Justice and Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
1999 - The Issue of ‘Right to Food’ among the Hindus: Notes and Comments. In Tradition, Pluralism and Identity. Veena Das, Dipankar Gupta and Patricia Uberoi, eds. London: Sage Publications.
1998 - Elusive Social Justice, Distant Human Rights: Untouchable Women’s Struggles and Dilemmas in Changing India. In Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia. Michael Anderson and Sumit Guha, eds. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1998 - Cultural Diversity and Social Discontent: Anthropological Studies of Modern India. New Delhi, London, and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
1996 - Dava. Daktar and Dua: Anthropology of Practiced Medicine in India.. Social Science and Medicine 43 (5): 837-848.
1994 - On and About Postmodernism: Writing/Rewriting. (Editor, with Introduction) Baltimore: University Press of America.
1993 - The Seen and the Unseen: Hindu Distinctions, Experiences, and Cultural Reasoning. Contributions to Indian Sociology 27(2):191-212.
1992 - The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. Albany: State University of New York Press.
1984 - The Untouchable as Himself Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.