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Books:
Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India. 
Oxford University Press, 2003. 
(http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195663993.html)

The Dynamics of Diversity: Narratives of Pluralism in South Asian 
History.(edited) [in progress]

Articles and Book Chapters (*=peer reviewed):
"The Historical Context." In Understanding Contemporary India. Edited by 
Sumit Ganguly and Neil DeVotta.  Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003.

* With Faisal Bari. "(Mis)Representing Economy: Western Media Production 
and the Impoverishment of South Asia."  Comparative Studies of South Asia, 
Africa, and the Middle East 21(1&2), 2001 (published 2002): 99-109. 
Special issue on Globalization and Cultural Studies.

* "The Rebel Academy: Modernity and The Movement for a University in 
Princely Baroda, 1908-1949."  The Journal of Asian Studies 61(3), August 
2002: 919-947.

* "Demystifying the 'Ideal Progressive': Resistance Through Mimicked 
Modernity in Princely Baroda, 1900-1913." Modern Asian Studies 35(2),
2001: 385-409.

* "The Discourse of School Choice in the United States." The Educational 
Forum 60(4), 1996: 317-325.  Baltimore's Task Force on School Choice, 
appointed by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, used a version of this paper in March 
1996.

Book Reviews:
Stanley Wolpert. Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. 
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 308 pp. $17.95 [In Peace & 
Change: A Journal of Peace Research 29(2), April 2004.]

Dick Kooiman, Communalism and Indian Princely States. (Delhi: Manohar, 
2002), 249 pp. Rs. 500 [In The American Historical Review, 108(4), October 
2003.]

Nita Kumar, Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras.  
(New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000), 232 pp. $45.00 [In The Journal of 
Asian Studies 61(2), May 2002: 755-757.]

Margrit Pernau, The Passing of Patrimonialism: Politics and Political 
Culture in Hyderabad 1911-1948. (Delhi: Manohar, 2000), 395 pp. Rs. 700 
[In The Journal of Asian Studies 60(2), May 2001: 586-588.]

Alaka Basu and Roger Jeffrey (eds), Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and 
Fertility Change in South Asia. (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1996), 
339pp., Rs. 225 [In South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 20(1), 
1997: 134-135.]

Essays:
"James Laine, Shivaji, and Freedom of Speech." Picked up on the South Asia 
Citizens Wire.  Published on CounterCurrents.org, 3/2004, and as an 
interview in India Abroad.

"The Answer is Blowing in the Wind." Published in The Nation (Pakistan), 
8/9 July 2002.  Picked up in The Kashmir Observer (Srinagar, Kashmir), 
19-21 July 2002.

With Faisal Bari. "The New Non-Violence: Re-imagining 'Peace' in South 
Asia." Forthcoming in Samar: South Asia Magazine for Action and 
Reflection.

"Ending the Stalemate: Thoughts on Kashmir." Published in The 
Nation(Pakistan), U.S. 3/26/02.

With Faisal Bari. "The Madness of the Nation."  Published as "The Dilemma 
of the Nation" in The Nation (Pakistan), U.S. 5/25/01.

Other:
Editor-in-Chief. Sagar: South Asia Graduate Research Journal 1(1) thru 
2(2) [1994-1995, 4 issues]
http://inic.utexas.edu/asnic/pages/sagar/index.html

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