Books
- Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, co-edited with Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2007.
- Untouchability in Rural India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2006. (with Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, S.K. Thorat and Amita Baviskar).
- Contemporary India: A Sociological View, Viking Penguin, New Delhi 2003. (Penguin paperback edition published January 2004)
Reports, Special Issues of Journals
- Social Science Teaching in Hindi: An Inventory and Analysis of Popular Textbooks at Six North Indian Universities' Report of a project supported by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai; Higher Education Cell, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru; and the Institute for Socio-Economic Research in Democracy and Development, Delhi. October 2010.
- Comprehending Class, Special Issue of the South African Review of Sociology, (co-edited with P.Alexander and K.Wale), v.41, n.3, 2010.
- Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality: Essays in Honour of Patricia Uberoi, Special Issue of Contributions to Indian Sociology, (co-edited with A.Baviskar & N.Sundar), v.44 nos.1-2, June 2010.
- Equal Opportunity Commission: What, Why, How A Report prepared for the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, by a seven member expert group. Released in February 2008. Available for download at:
http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/reports/eoc_wwh/eoc_wwh.pdf
- Dalits in the Muslim and Christian Communities: A Status Report on Current Social Scientific Knowledge, a Report commissioned by the National Commission of Minorities, Government of India. January 2008. Available for download at: http://ncm.nic.in/pdf/report%20dalit%20%20reservation.pdf
- Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia, a Report prepared for the Social Science Research Council, New York, 2002. (Co-authored with a nine member South Asian team led by Partha Chatterjee). Available for download at:
http://publications.ssrc.org/wp6.pdf
- Situating Sociology: A Symposium on Knowledge, Institutions and Practices in a Discipline, theme issue of the journal Seminar, n.495, November 2000. (co-edited with Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi). Available for download at:
http://www.india-seminar.com/2000/495.htm