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Publications
Books
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Negotiating Leviathan: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India (Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
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Oceanic Circularities: Mobile People and Connected Places in the Indian Ocean (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming)
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Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India (Oxford University Press, 2016)
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The Politics of Caste in West Bengal(Routledge, 2015)
Journal Issues/Sections
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Thinking with the Indian Ocean,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 43 (2), 2023 (forthcoming)
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Rethinking Resistance: Subalternity and the State in Contemporary India
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The Ethics of Self-Making in Postcolonial India,” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 7, 2013
Research Articles
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Introduction: Thinking with the Indian Ocean,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 43, 2(2023)
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Towards New Social Histories of Caste Subordination in Modern India
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A Divided City in a Time of Pandemic: Dispatches from Doha,City & Society, 32, 2 (2020)
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Primitive Accumulation and ‘Primitive’ Subjects In Postcolonial India: Tracing The Myriad Real And Virtual Lives Of Mediatized Indigeneity Activism, Interventions, 19, 3 (2017): 322-337
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Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Specter of Universalism, Critical Sociology, 43, 5 (2017): 599-610.
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Rethinking Subaltern Resistance,” The Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45, 4 (2015): 563-573.
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Flaming Fields and Forest Fires: Agrarian Transformations and the Making of Birsa Munda’s Rebellion, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 53, 1 (2016)
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Towards Adivasi Studies: New Perspectives on the ‘Tribal’ Margins of Modern India,” Studies in History, 31, 1 (2015): 122-127
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Millenarian Dreams, Modern Aspirations: Adivasi Community-Making and Contentious Politics in Colonial Eastern India,” Max Planck Working Paper Series, 14-1 (2014)
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Rashomon Revisited: Contending Narratives on a Gang Rape in West Bengal,” Economic & Political Weekly, 49, 17 (2014): 15-17.
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The Maoist Movement in Contemporary India, Social Movement Studies, 13, 3 (2014): 414-419.
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Beyond Subalternity: Land, Community, and the State in Contemporary Jharkhand,” Contemporary South Asia, 21, 1 (2013): 52-61.
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Going Primitive: The Ethics of Indigenous Rights Activism in Contemporary Jharkhand,” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 7 (2013)
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Introduction: Selves and Society in Postcolonial India,” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 7 (2013)
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Liberalism and its Other: The Politics of Primitivism in Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Law,” Law & Society Review, 47, 1 (2013): 135-168.
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The Case for a Postcolonial Approach to the Study of Politics,” New Political Science, 35, 3 (2013): 479-491.
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The Importance of Caste in Bengal, Economic & Political Weekly, 47, 44 (2012): 59-61
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Book Chapters
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Adivasis and the State in Modern India: A Critical Appraisal,” The Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent Vol. IV, edited by Mrinalini Sinha, Prasannan Parathasarathi, and David Gilmartin (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
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Introduction, Oceanic Circularities: Mobile People and Connected Places in the Indian Ocean, edited by Uday Chandra, Rogaia Abusharaf, Maurice Jackson, and Irene Ann Promodh (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming)
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Kol, Coolie, Colonial Subject: A Secret History of Caste and the Making of Modern Bengal,” Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance, edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar, 399-418 (Permanent Black, 2022) [reprinted from The Politics of Caste in West Bengal, edited by Uday Chandra, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Geir Heierstad, 19-34 (Routledge, 2015)]
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Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers,” Bombay Brokers, edited by Lisa Björkman, 101-108 (Duke University Press, 2021)
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The 2014 National Elections from the Margins of Modern India,” Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics, edited by Mujibur Rehman, 263-78 (Routledge, 2018).
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Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India,” Indigeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept, edited by Eva Gerharz et al, 221-39 (Berghahn Books, 2017)
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Maoism and the Masses: Critical Reflections on Revolutionary Praxis and Subaltern Agency,” Revolutionary Violence versus Democracy: Narratives from India, edited by Ajay Gudavarthy, 191-221 (Sage Publications, 2017)
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Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India, edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff (Oxford University Press, 2016)
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Adivasis in Contemporary India: Engagements with State, Non-State Actors and the Capitalist Economy,” Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, 297-310 (Routledge, 2015)
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Introduction, The Politics of Caste in West Bengal, edited by Uday Chandra, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Geir Heierstad (Routledge, 2015)
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The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, 2259-2263 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
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Book Reviews
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Erik de Maaker, Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India (forthcoming)  – Contributions to Indian Sociology (do not add the journal names in the webpage)
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Indrajit Roy, Politics of the Poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India – Outlook
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Shruti Kapila, Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age – Perspectives on Politics 
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Adam Auerbach, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums – South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
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Megan Moodie, We Were Adivasi: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe – Journal of South Asian Development
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Ajay Skaria, Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’ s Religion of Resistance – Pacific Affairs
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Townsend Middleton, The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling – The Journal of Peasant Studies
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P. Sanal Mohan, Modernity of Slavery: Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala – Social Sciences and Missions
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Hira Singh, Recasting Caste: From the Sacred to the Profane – The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
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Anastasia Piliavsky (ed.), Patronage as Politics in South Asia
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John Gaventa and Rajesh Tandon (eds.), Globalising Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion – Social Movement Studies
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Arupjyoti Saikia, A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 – Asian Highlands Perspectives
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Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer (eds.), Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control – The Australian Journal of Anthropology
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Vibha Joshi, A Matter of Belief. Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India – Social Anthropology
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Lamia Karim, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh – Contemporary South Asia
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George Kunnath, Rebels from the Mud Houses: Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar – Journal of Agrarian Change
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Alpa Shah, In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India – Journal of Peasant Studies
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John Holloway, Crack Capitalism – Political Studies Review
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David Gellner (ed.), Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia and Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia – Social Movement Studies
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Shashank Kela, A Rogue and a Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000 – Seminar
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Paul R. Brass, An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1937 to 1961 – Contemporary South Asia
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James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed – Religion and Society
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In the Media
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Are Adivasis Being Taken For Granted?: The Politics Of Activism Among Adivasis
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The making of a Hindu India
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Thinking theologically with pandemics
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Modi’s Hindu nationalism is stumbling
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Modi embodies the new Kshatriya ideal in Indian democracy – and that could be its vulnerability
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The Jharkhand juncture