'Introduction: Higher Education, the Social Sciences and the Language Question in an Unequal Society' (pp.5-20), and 'Conclusion and Some Suggestions For the Future' (pp.95-101) in Satish Deshpande (ed), Social Science Teaching in Hindi: An Inventory and Analysis of Popular Textbooks at Six North Indian Universities, a Project Report sponsored by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and the Higher Education Cell, CSCS, Bengaluru, October 2010.

Pass, Fail, Distinction: The Examination as a Social Institution, text of the Third Marjorie Sykes Memorial Lecture, published as a monograph by the NCERT, New Delhi, September 2010, pp.10-66.

‘The Politics of Not Counting Caste’, (with Mary E. John) in Economic and Political Weekly, v.45 n.25, Jun 19-21, 2010, pp.39-42.

'Introduction: Honouring Patricia Uberoi', (with A.Baviskar and N.Sundar), in Contributions to Indian Sociology, v.44, nos.1 & 2, 2010, pp. 1-9.

‘Recent Trends in Caste Inequalities: Comparison of NSSO Consumption Expenditure Data of 2000 and 2005', in Debal K. Singha-Roy (ed) Surviving Against Odds: The Marginalised in a Globalising World, Manohar, New Delhi 2010, pp.97-117.

‘Sharing Sovereignty: Negotiating Inequality and Difference in Postnational Societies’, (Keynote Address to the XIVth Annual Conference of the South African Sociological Association), in South African Review of Sociology, v.40, n.2, 2009, pp.9-18.

‘The Moral Meanings of Majorities’, in Seminar, n.602, October 2009, pp.20-24.

‘Inclusion vs. Excellence: Caste and the Framing of Fair Access in Indian Higher Education’, in South African Review of Sociology, v.40, n.1, 2009, pp.127-147.

‘The Practice of Social Theory and the Poltics of Location’, in Economic and Political Weekly, v.44 n.10 , Mar 7, 2009, pp.40-46.

‘Theorising the Present: Problems and Possibilities’, (with Mary E. John) in Economic and Political Weekly, v.43 n.46 , Nov 15-21, 2008, pp.83-86.

‘Changing Social Composition’, in Seminar, n.587, July 2008, pp.23-26.

‘Declining Simplistic Narratives’, (part of a symposium on the Fourth Review of the ICSSR), in Economic and Political Weekly, v.43 n.5, Feb 2-8, 2008, pp.25-28. Also published in Ira Pande (ed) Beyond Degrees, India International Centre Quarterly, v.34, nos.3 & 4, Winter 2007—Spring 2008, pp.76-83; book version by Harper Collins India, New Delhi 2008.

‘Caste Inequalities in Rural India: A note based on NSSO data’, in S.R. Ahlawat (ed) Economic Reforms and Social Transformation, Rawat, Jaipur and New Delhi, 2008, pp.158-180.

‘Fashioning a Postcolonial Discipline: M.N. Srinivas and Indian Sociology’, in Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, Patricia Uberoi, Nandini Sundar and Satish Deshpande (eds), Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2007, pp.496-536.

‘The Professionalisation of Indian Sociology and Social Anthropology: People, Places, Institutions’, (with P.Uberoi and N.Sundar), in Anthropolgies in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Social Anthropology, P.Uberoi, N.Sundar & S.Deshpande (eds), Permanent Black, New Delhi 2007, pp.1-63.

‘Social Cleavages and the Problem of Governance’, in V.Raghavan (ed), Civil Society and Governance in Modern India, Center for Security Analysis, Chennai, 2007, pp.95-120.

‘Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Indian Higher Education Today’, Economic and Political Weekly, v. 41 n.24, June 17-23, 2006, pp.2438-2444. Republished as a chapter in Sukhadeo Thorat and Narender Kumar (eds), In search of inclusive policy: Addressing graded inequality, Rawat Publications, Jaipur & New Delhi, 2008, pp.321-337.

‘Redesigning Affirmative Action: Castes and Benefits in Higher Education’, (with Yogendra Yadav), Economic and Political Weekly, v. 41 n.24, June 17-23, 2006, pp.2419-2424. Republished as a chapter in: Sukhadeo Thorat and Narender Kumar (eds), In search of inclusive policy: Addressing graded inequality, Rawat Publications, Jaipur & New Delhi, 2008, pp.191-208; and also in S. Rajagopalan (ed) Affirmative action: Perspectives and experiences. ICFAI Publications, Hyderabad, pp.122-140.

‘Caste Inequalities Among Indian Christians: A Statistical Note’, in E.C. John and Samson Prabhakar (eds), Christian Identity and Cultural Nationalism: Challenges and Opportunities, BTESSC/SATHRI, Ecumenical Christian Academy, Bangalore, 2006, pp.50-77.

‘Castes et inegalites sociales dans l’Inde contemporaine’, (tr. and introduced by Roland Lardinois), in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, College de France, Paris, n.160, December 2005, pp.99-116.

‘Ethnic Engagements: Cultural Differences and the Indian State’, in Charan D. Wadhva & Vatroslav Vekaric (eds), India and Serbia and Montenegro Re-Engagement: Regional and Bilateral Dimensions, APH Publishing New Delhi (for Centre For Policy Research, New Delhi, and Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade), 2005, pp.285-94.

‘Confronting Caste Inequality: What sociologists must do to reorient social policy’, in S.M. Dahiwale (ed), Understanding Indian Society: Non-Brahmanical Perspectives, Rawat Publications, New Delhi and Jaipur, 2005, pp.221-58.

‘Pratyaya Aur Prasang: Vaishvikaran’ (‘Concepts and Contexts: Globalization’, in Hindi), in Kriti Sanskriti Sandhaan, n.2, April-December 2003, pp.5-15.

“Social Science Research in the Contemporary World: The Problems and Possibilities of ‘Globalization’”, in Sociological Bulletin, v.52, n.2, September 2003, pp.263-70.

‘Caste Inequality and Indian Sociology: Notes on Questions of Disciplinary Location’, in Maitrayee Chaudhuri (ed), The Practice of Sociology: The Changing Contours of the Discipline, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2003, pp.177-220.

‘Modernization’, in Veena Das (ed.), The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003, pp.62-98.

‘Social ScienceResearch Capacity in South Asia: Some Questions for Discussion’, in Economic and Political Weekly, v.XXXVII, n.35, Sep 6, 2002, pp.3628-3630.

‘Disciplinary Predicaments: Sociology and Anthropology in Postcolonial India’, in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, v.2, n.2, November 2001, pp.247-260.

‘The Spatiality of Community: Evaluating the Impact of Globalization on Regional Identities’ in Surinder S. Jodhka (ed.), Community and Identity: Interrogating Contemporary Discourses on India, Sage Publications, 2001, New Delhi.

‘Social Space and the Formation of Identities: Doubts and Queries on the Concept of Globalisation’, in Identity, Locality and Globalization: Experience of India and Indonesia, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi 2001.

‘From Development to Globalization: Shifts in Ideological Paradigms of Nation and Economy in the Third World’, in Rama Melkote (ed), Meanings of Globalization: Indian and French Perspectives, Sterling, New Delhi, 2001, pp.98-114.

‘Making Asia Mean: Towards a Response to Sun Ge’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, v.1, n.3, December 2000, pp.542-547.

‘The Problem’, (with Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi), Seminar, n.495, November, 2000, pp.12-13. (Editorial for theme issue on: “Situating Sociology: A Symposium on Knowledge, Institutions and Practices in a Discipline”).

‘Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth Century India’, in Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan (ed.), Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Gender and Violence: Essays on the Subaltern Condition, Permanent Black and Ravi Dayal Publishers, 2000, Delhi. (Previously published in Public Culture Journal, v.10, n.2, Winter 1998, pp.249-83.)

‘Indian Anthropology and Sociology: Towards a History’ (with Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi), Economic and Political Weekly, v.XXXV, n.24, June 10, 2000, pp.1998-2002.

‘M.N. Srinivas on sociology and social change in India: Extracts from an Interview’, Contributions to Indian Sociology, (new series), v.34, n.1, February 2000, pp.105-117.

‘Caste and the Census’, in Sociological Bulletin, v.48, nos.1 & 2, March-September 1999, pp.257-262.

‘Mapping a Distinctive Modernity: “Modernization” as a Theme in Indian Sociology’, Occasional Papers in Sociology, No.1, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, November 1999.

‘Caste and the Census: Implications for Society and the Social Sciences’, Report on an IEG Symposium, co-authored with Nandini Sundar, Economic and Political Weekly, v.33, n.32, 1998, pp.2157-59.

‘After Culture: Renewed Agendas for the Political Economy of India’, Cultural Dynamics (Sage, London), v.10, n.2, 1998, pp.147-169.

‘Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth Century India’, in Public Culture Journal (Duke University Press), v.10, n.2, Winter 1998, pp.249-83.

‘The Current Impasse in the Language of Rights: A Note on Questions of Context’, Economic and Political Weekly, v.33, n.5, Jan 31-Feb 6, 1998, pp. PE11-15.

‘From Development to Adjustment: Economic Ideologies, the Middle Class and Fifty Years of Independence,’ Review of Development and Change, v.2 n.2 June-December 1997, pp.294-318.

‘Anti Anti-Economism’, Seminar, n.446, pp.16-19, October 1996.

‘Communalising the Nation-Space: Notes on the Spatial Strategies of Hindutva’, Economic and Political Weekly, v.XXX, n.50, December 16, 1995, pp.3220-27. Also published in Rama S. Melkote and Sheela Prasad (ed.), The Third World City: Emerging Contours, Delta Publishing House, Hyderabad, 1997, pp.15-38.

‘Sampradayikata Ebam Samaj Manas’, (Bengali translation of ‘Communalism and the Social Imagination’), Jignasa, v.14 n.4, 1994, pp.501-506.

‘The Crisis in Sociology: A Tired Discipline?’, Economic and Political Weekly, v.XXIX, n.10, March 5, 1994, pp.575-576.

‘Imagined Economies: Styles of Nation Building in Twentieth Century India’, in Journal of Arts and Ideas, Special Issue on Careers of Modernity, Nos.25-26, December 1993, pp.5-35.