Forthcoming
“Good Governance,” an essay in The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century, Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur eds., Penguin India.
Under Revision
A Technomoral Politics: Transparency, Corruption, and Good Governance in India. Book manuscript.
Books
2008 Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India. University of Minnesota Press (Indian edition, titled “Paradoxes of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India” published by Zubaan Books in 2010).
2006 The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. Co-edited with Akhil Gupta. Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2020 Conjunctural Promises: A Retrospective Honoring John Clarke (co-authored with Kathleen Coll, Jeff Maskovsky, Paul Stubbs, and John Clarke). Occasional Papers, The Association for the Anthropology of Policy, December 2020 (https://www.anthofpolicy.org/asap-occasional-paper).
2018 New Brooms and Old: Sweeping Up Corruption in India, One Law at a Time. Current Anthropology 59(18): S72-S82.
2016 On Spies, Conspiracies, and Intruders: Ethnographic Encounters with “America” in Rural India. In Anthropology Now 8:125-132.
2016 The Righteous and the Rightful: The Technomoral Politics of NGOs, Social Movements, and the State in India. Co-authored with Erica Bornstein. In American Ethnologist 43(1): 76-90.
2014 Epic Fasts and Shallow Spectacles: The India Against Corruption Movement, its Critics, and the Remaking of “Gandhi.” In South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies37(3):365-380.
2014 The State and Women’s Empowerment: Paradoxes and Politics. Book chapter in Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal and Victoria Bernal eds. Duke University Press.
2013 State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn: The Limits, Paradoxes, and Politics of India’s Right to Information Law. The Political and Legal Anthropology Review36(2).
2011 Specifying Citizenship: Subaltern Politics of Rights and Justice in Contemporary India. Citizenship Studies 15 (8): 965-980.
2010 States of Empowerment. Book chapter in The State in India After Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan eds. Routledge (Contemporary South Asia Series).
2006 Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle: Women’s “Empowerment,” Neoliberal Governmentality, and State (Re)Formation in India.” Cultural Anthropology 21(1).
2006 Globalization and Postcolonial States, co-authored with Akhil Gupta, Current Anthropology 47(2).
2006 Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization. Co-authored with Akhil Gupta. In The Anthropology of the State: A Reader. Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Other Publications
2019 Conversation with John Clarke, which was published in his book, Critical Dialogues: Thinking Together in Turbulent Times, Policy Press, pp. 69-86.
2012 Finding Women among Common Men. Blog published on Kafila (http://kafila.online), a prestigious political blog site in India. December 12.