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PARTHA S. GHOSH CV
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� Website: www.parthasghosh.com
Present Position:
♦ Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi (Retired Professor of South
Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
E-Mail:<[email protected]><[email protected]>
Residential Address in Delhi and Preferred Mailing Address:
♦ B-10/7334 Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi - 110070.
Tel. (91-11) 2689-9063 (Home), 9811674517 (Mobile).
Education (in chronological order)
♦ Secondary School Certificate, 1961. Bihar Secondary School Examination Board,
Patna, Bihar, India. First Division.
♦ B.A. (History Honours), 1966. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. First
Class.
♦ M.A. (History), 1968. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. First Class.
♦ B.L., 1969, Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. First Class.
♦ M. Phil., 1972. School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi.
♦ Ph.D., 1978. School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Professional Record (in chronological order)
♦ November 1969 – June 1971: Lecturer, Post-Graduate Department of History,
Bhagalpur University, Bihar, India.
♦ July 1975 – December 1977: Research Assistant to Prof. V. P. Dutt to work on a
project on India’s Foreign Policy during the Indira Gandhi Era.
♦ October 1977 – December 1977: Lecturer, Bhagat Singh (Evening) College, New
Delhi.
♦ January 1978 – April 1981: Assistant Director, Indian Council of Social Science
Research, New Delhi.
♦ May 1981 – July 1983: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. (On
deputation from the ICSSR.).
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♦ August 1983 – December 1984: Assistant Director, Indian Council of Social Science
Research, New Delhi.
♦ January 1985 – December 1986: Humboldt Fellow, South Asia Institute, University
of Heidelberg, Germany. (On study leave from the ICSSR.)
♦ January 1987 – August 1990: Deputy Director, Indian Council of Social Science
Research, New Delhi.
♦ September 1990 – August 1992: Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research,
New Delhi.
♦ September 1992 – May 1993: Ford Visiting Scholar, Program in Arms Control,
Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, USA (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ June 1993 – August 1993: Humboldt Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg, Germany (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ September 1993 – December 1995: Director, Indian Council of Social Science
Research, New Delhi.
♦ January 1996 – June 1996: ICHR Fellow affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial
Museum and Library, New Delhi (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ July 1996 – July 2003: Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New
Delhi.
♦ July 2003 – March 2005: Visiting Professor, O.K.D. Institute for Social Change and
Development, Guwahati (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ April 2005 – December 2005: Head, CENISEAS (Centre for Northeast India, South
and South East Asian Studies) (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ January 2006 – July 2006: Visiting Professor, O.K.D. Institute for Social Change
and Development, Guwahati (on leave from the ICSSR).
♦ October 2010 – Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of
Bordeaux, France.
♦ June 2006 – June 2012: Professor of South Asian Studies, School of International
Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
♦ July 2012 – September 2012: ICCR Chair in Indian Studies, Political Science and
International Relations Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
♦ November 2012 – October 2013, Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi – 110 011.
♦ March 2015 – May 2015: Visiting Professor, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg
University, Heidelberg, Germany.
♦ July 2007– November 2015:Editor, India Quarterly, Indian Council of World Affairs
(ICWA), New Delhi.
♦ November 2014 – February 2017: ICSSR National Fellow Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.
♦ July 2017 – continuing: Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences(ISS), New Delhi.
Awards, Fellowships, Prizes and Honours (in reverse chronological order)
♦ Awarded the ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research)National Fellowship,
India, November 2014 - February2017.
♦ Awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany, March 2015 - May2015.
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♦ Awarded Senior Fellowship of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML),
India, November 2012 - October 2014.
♦ Awarded ICCR Visiting Professorship for three months at the Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand, mid-July to mid-October 2012.
♦ Awarded Visiting Professorship for a month at the Department of Political Science,
Bordeaux, France, October 2010.
♦ Chosen to deliver the 2008 Annual Lecture of the Centre of South Asian Studies,
School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on 11 March 2008, on “Politics of
Personal Laws in South Asia”.
♦ Awarded Visiting Professorship for a month at the Maison de Sciences des l’Homme,
Paris, June 2007.
♦ Awarded a 15-day visit to Japan under the Visitors’ Program (Short-Term) of the Japan
Foundation, Tokyo, 2-16 October 2002.
♦ Awarded Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam under the Exchange of Scholars
(EOS) Scheme of the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development
(IDPAD), July 2002.
♦ Awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio, Italy (May-June, 1997).
♦ Awarded the Indian Council of Historical Research Fellowship, India, January-June
1996.
♦ Awarded the Humboldt Fellowship, Germany, June-August 1993.
♦ Awarded the Ford Visiting Fellowship, USA, September 1992 - May 1993.
♦ Awarded the South Asian Dialogue Fellowship, International Centre for Ethnic Studies,
Kandy (Sri Lanka), 1992.
♦ Awarded the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar
(American Politics and Foreign Policy Process), 283rd
Session, May-June, 1990.
♦ Awarded the Humboldt Fellowship, West Germany, January 1985 - December 1986.
♦ Awarded the Olive Reddick Prize for reading best doctoral student paper, Annual
Conference, Indian Association of American Studies, Tirupati, 1975.
♦ Awarded the Olive Reddick Prize for reading best doctoral student paper, Annual
Conference, Indian Congress of American History, Mysore, 1973.
♦ Granted the Nehru University Development Fund Fellowship for doctoral research,
1971-75.
♦ Awarded the University Gold Medal for securing first Position in First Class in M.A
(History).
♦ Awarded the National Scholarship during studentship at the Masters level.
♦ University Gold Medal for securing First Position in First Class in B.A. (in History
Honours).
Publications
Books (in reverse chronological order)
♦ BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism: Savarkar to Vajpayee to Modi(New
Delhi: Manohar, 2017--Enlarged Edition of my 1999 book with the same main title).
♦ Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South Asia (New Delhi: Sage, 2016).
♦ The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia: Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code (New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2007).
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♦ Unwanted and Uprooted: A Political Study of Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Displaced in South Asia (New Delhi: Samskriti, 2004).
♦ Ethnicity versus Nationalism: The Devolution Discourse in Sri Lanka(New Delhi:
Sage, 2003). (Simultaneously published in Sri Lanka by Vijitha Yapa Publications,
Colombo.)
♦ Migrants and Refugees in South Asia: Political and Security Dimensions (Shillong:
North Eastern Hill University Publications, 2001).
♦ Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics (New Delhi: Sage,
2000). (Jointly edited with Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld, and with a substantive
chapter.)
♦ BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism: From Periphery to Centre (New Delhi:
Manohar, 1999, reprinted in 2000).
♦ Rivalry and Revolution in South and East Asia(Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1997).
(Edited with an introduction and a substantive chapter).
♦ Cooperation and Conflict in South Asia(New Delhi: Manohar, 1989, reprinted in
1995). (South Asian Studies No.21 of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University).
♦ Sino-Soviet Relations: US Perceptions and Policy Responses, 1949-1959 (New Delhi:
Uppal Publishing House, 1981).
Chapters in Books (in reverse chronological order)
♦ “A View from the Gallery: Perspective of a ‘Colonised’ on Post-Imperial
Memories”, in Memories of Postimperial Nations: The Aftermath of Decolonization,
1945-2013. Dietmar Rothermund, ed. (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015,
pp. 181-97. (Also in German, “Ein Blick von der Galerie. Ansichten eines
"Kolonisierten" zur Erinnerungskultur postimperialer Nationen”, in
Erinnerungskulturen postimperialer Nationen. Dietmar Rothermund, ed., Baden-
Baden: NOMOS, 2015, pp. 275-91.
♦ “Perceptions and Memories: Making Sense of Bangladesh’s India Outlook”, in
India and South Asia. Vishal Chandra, ed. (New Delhi: IDSA and Pentagon Press,
2015), pp. 59-69.
♦ “Nation, Nationalism and Internationalism: Footprints of Tagore on India’s Foreign
Policy”, in Tagore the Eternal Seeker: Footprints of World Traveller. Suryakathi
Tripathi and Radha Chakravarty, eds. (New Delhi: ICWA and Vij Books, 2015), pp. 9-
19.
♦ “Personal Law Versus Uniform Civil Code: Constitutional Hope Meets Political
Hurdles,” in Constitutional History of India: Federalism, Elections, Government
andRule of Law.Subhash C. Kashyap, ed., being the Volume XIV, Part 5B of the
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, General Editor:
D.P. Chattopadhyaya (New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2015), pp. 325-
63.
♦ “Bangladeshis in Delhi: Making Sense of the Small Voices Against the Big
Narrative”, in Searching for Community: From Melbourne to Delhi. Supriya Singh,
Yaso Nadraja, Martin Mulligan and Chris Chamberlain, eds. (New Delhi: Manohar,
2015), pp. 77-98.
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♦ “South Asia’s Response to its Refugee Questions”, in Politics in South Asia:
Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow. Siegfried O. Wolf, Jivanta Schoettli,
Dominik Frommherz, Kai Fuerstenberg, Marian Gallenkamp, Lion Koenig, Markus
Pauli, eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, pp. 101-22.
♦ “Internal-External Security Interface: Case Study of the India-Bangladesh Border”,
in Public Security in Federal Systems. Ajay K. Mehra, ed. (New Delhi: Lancer, 2014,
pp. 158-181.
♦ “Party Dynamics in a Border Region: Meeting the Challenges of Political Economy of
India’s N-E Hill States,” in Party System in India: Emerging Trajectories. Ajay K.
Mehra, ed. (New Delhi: Lancer, 2013, pp. 297-324. (Co-author Deepak K. Mishra)
♦ “Mapping the Mixed and Massive Human Flows in South Asia: Impact of Women, the
Stateless and Other Disadvantaged Groups,” in Unstable Populations, Anxious
States: Mixed and Massive Human Flows in South Asia. Paula Banerjee, ed.
(Kolkata: Samya, 2013, pp. 18-49.
♦ “Police in Plural Societies: India and Sri Lanka,” inThe Police, State and Society:
Perspectives from India and France.Ajay K. Mehra and René Lévy, eds. (New Delhi:
Pearson Longman, 2010), pp. 169-85.
♦ “Syncretistic India: Social Synthesis, Political Osmosis,” in Inspiring Winds and
Rainbow of Ideas (Essays in Honour of Professor Rajen Harshe). Hari Shankar
Upadhyaya and Anjani Kumar Malviya, eds. (Allahabad: Prayag Pustak Bhawan,
2010), pp. 281- 308.
♦ “From Legalism to Realism in Kashmir: Internationalising the Line of Control,” in
State and Foreign Policy in South Asia. Jivanta Schoettli and Siegfried O. Wolf, eds.
(New Delhi: Samskriti, 2010), pp. 127- 77. (Originally published inHeidelberg Papers
in South Asian and Comparative Politics (Heidelberg University), Working Paper
No. 7, September 2002.)
♦ “Foreign Policy and Indian Politics: Issues before the Fifteenth General Election,” in
Emerging Trends in Indian Politics: The Fifteenth General Election.Ajay K. Mehra,
ed. (New Delhi: Routledge, 2010), pp. 304-26.
♦ “Politics of Competing Ethnicity and Violence: The Experience of India’s North East,”
in Political Governance and Minority Rights: The South and South-East Asian
Scenario. Lipi Ghosh, ed. (New Delhi, Routledge, 2009), pp. 3-30.
♦ “Politics of Competing Ethnicity and Violence in India’s North East,” in Violent
Conflict, Terrorism and Nation-Building: National and International Responses in Sri Lanka and Other South Asian Countries. K.M. de Silva, ed. (Kandy, Sri Lanka:
International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2009), pp. 1-26.
♦ “Country Paper: India,” in Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia.
Dushyantha Mendis, ed. (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), pp. 73-95.
♦ “Identity, Ideology and Conflict,” in Aspects of India’sInternational Relations 1700 to
2000: South Asia and the World. Jayanta K. Ray, ed., being the Volume X, Part 6 of
the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, General Editor:
D.P. Chattopadhyaya (New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2007), pp. 127-
72.
♦ “Migrant Issues in India and Japan: A Study in Contrast,” in India and Japan in
Search of Global Roles. Rajaram Panda and Yoo Fukazawa, eds. (New Delhi: Promilla
and Co. and Japan Foundation: 2007), pp. 275-94.
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♦ “Challenges of Peace Building in India’s Northeast: A Holistic Perspective,” Order in
Chaos: Essays on Conflict in India’s Northeast and the Road to Peace in South Asia. Wasbir Hussain, ed. (Guwahati/Delhi: Spectrum Publications: 2006), pp. 82-108.
♦ “Bhutan and India: Partners in Progress,” in Engagement and Development: India’s
Northeast and Neighbouring Countries. C. Joshua Thomas, ed. (New Delhi: Akansha,
2006), pp. 100-10.
♦ “India in South Asia: Cooperation amidst Tensions,” in India’s New Dynamics in
Foreign Policy. Subrata K. Mitra and Bernd Rill, eds. (Munich: Hanns Seidel
Foundation, 2006), pp. 35-50.
♦ “Bharatiya Janata Party: Hindu Nationalism versus Compulsions of Pluralism,” in
Political Parties in South Asia. Subrata K. Mitra, Mike Enskat, and Clemens Spiess,
eds. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2004), pp. 55-75.
♦ “Area Studies: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese Studies in India and Indian Studies
in Japan,” in India and Japan: Blossoming of a New Understanding. Rajaram Panda
and Yoo Fukazawa, eds. (New Delhi: Japan Foundation and Lancer’s Books, 2004),
pp.73-86.
♦ “Intellectuals Analyse, Extremists Penalise: Limits of Textual Explorations,” in Islam
in Contemporary World: Some Indian Perspectives (New Delhi: Japan Foundation,
2004), pp. 1-14.
♦ “Population Movements and Interstate Conflicts,” in Peace Studies: An Introduction
to the Concept, Scope, and Themes. Ranabir Samaddar, ed. (New Delhi: Sage, 2004),
pp. 226-53.
♦ “Towards a Better Understanding of Indian Islam,” in Status of Islamic Studies in
India: An Overview (New Delhi: Japan Foundation, 2003), pp. 1-18.
♦ “The Congress and the BJP: Struggle for the Heartland,” in Political Parties and Party
Systems. Ajay K. Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck, eds. (New Delhi: Sage,
2003), pp. 224-43.
♦ “Human Rights and Terrorism,” in Conflict Resolution, Human Rights and
Democracy. D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck, eds. (New Delhi: Shipra, 2003), pp.
175-92.
♦ “The Historical and Political Background of the Conflict in Sri Lanka,” in Peace
Initiatives towards Reconciliation and Nation Building in Sri Lanka: An International Perspective. Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, ed. (Kuala Lumpur: The
Malaysian Ceylonese Congress, 2002), pp. 69-90.
♦ “Possibility of Ethnic Compromise in Sri Lanka,” in Peace as Process: Reconciliation
and Conflict Resolution in South Asia. Ranabir Samaddar and Helmut Reifeld, eds.
(New Delhi: Manohar, 2001), pp. 205-30.
♦ “Cross-Border Migrations in South Asia and Regional Security,” in Explorations in the
History of South Asia: Essays in Honour of Dietmar Rothermund. Georg Berkemer,
Tilmann Frasch, Hermann Kulke and Juergen Luett, eds. (New Delhi: Manohar, 2001),
pp. 325-36.
♦ “Hindu-Muslim Conflicts in India: Confrontation and Co-Existence,” in Conflict and
Violence in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. K.M. de Silva,
ed. (Kandy, Sri Lanka: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2000), pp. 91-130.
♦ “‘We’ and ‘They’ Syndrome: The South Asian Experience,” in Pluralism and
Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics. Imtiaz Ahmad, Partha S. Ghosh and
Helmut Reifeld, eds. (New Delhi: Sage, 2000), pp. 197-215.
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♦ “Hindu-Muslim Question in India: Confrontation and Co-Existence,” in History and
Politics: Millennial Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Kingsley de Silva. Gerald
Peiris and S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe, eds. (Colombo: Law and Society Trust, 1999),
pp. 307-29.
♦ “Corruption in India: A Holistic Analysis,’ in Principles, Power and Politics. D.D.
Khanna and Gert W. Kueck, eds. (New Delhi: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 57-92.
♦ “Bhutan: Ethnicity, Democracy and Nation-Building,” in Democratisation in South
Asia: The First Fifty Years. John M. Richardson and S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe,
eds., (Kandy: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 1998), pp. 213-37.
♦ “Regional Security and Cross-Border Population Movements in South Asia,” in
Regional Security, Ethnicity and Governance: The Challenges for South Asia. Justus
Richter and Christian Wagner, eds., (New Delhi: Manohar, 1998), pp. 131-63.
♦ “Destination India: A Political Study of International Migrations,” in States, Citizens
and Outsiders: The Uprooted Peoples of South Asia. Tapan K. Bose and Rita
Manchanda, eds., (Kathmandu: South Asian Forum for Human Rights, 1998), pp. 153-
89.
♦ “Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Management: The Indian Case,” in Ethnicity and
Constitutional Reform in South Asia. Iftekharuzzaman, ed., (New Delhi: Manohar,
1998), pp. 49-83.
♦ “Hindu Nationalism, the Politics of Nation-Building and Implications for the
Legitimacy of the Sate,” in Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia. Subrata K. Mitra
and Dietmar Rothermund, eds., (New Delhi: Manohar, 1997), pp. 50-68.
♦ “Horizontal-Vertical Mismatch: Indian and Japanese Societies Compared,” in India
and Japan: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives. Rajaram Panda and Kazio Ando, eds.,
(New Delhi: The Japan Foundation Delhi Office, 1997), pp. 166-88.
♦ “Reminiscences of Hostel Life (1971-76),” in Kanjiv Lochan, ed., JNU: The Years
(Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1996).
♦ “Integrational Problems in South Asia and Regional Security,” in South Asia’s
Security: Primacy of Internal Dimension. Iftekharuzzaman, ed. (New Delhi: Vikas,
1995), pp. 161-73.
♦ “Challenges and Opportunities: Indian Foreign Policy in the 1990s,” in South Asia
after the Cold War: International Perspectives, Kanti P. Bajpai and Stephen P. Cohen,
eds. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 105-136.
♦ “India’s Perceptions of Indo-Pakistan, Indo-Bangladesh and Indo-Nepal Relations,” in
India and Her South Asian Neighbours. Bertram Bastiampillai, ed., (Colombo:
Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, 1992). pp. 178-95.
♦ “Colonial Origins of Sinhala-Tamil Ethnic Conflict,” in Nation-Building in South
Asia. Vol.2, Ramakant and B.C.Upreti, eds. (New Delhi: South Asian Publishers,
1991), pp. 309-329.
♦ “Domestic Constraints to South Asian Regionalism”, in South Asia in Transition:
Regional Cooperation, Ethnic Conflict and Political Participation. Dagmar
Bernstorff and Dieter Braun, eds. (New Delhi: Manohar, 1991), pp.1-24.
♦ “India’s Relations with its Neighbours: The Ethnic Factor”, in Internationalization of
Ethnic Conflict. K.M.de Silva and R.J.May, eds., (London: Pinter Publishers, 1991).
♦ “India-Pakistan Relations and South Asian Regionalism: Setting the Priorities,” in
South Asian Regional Cooperation: An Exercise in Open Diplomacy. M.D.
Dharmadasani, ed. (Varanasi: Shalimar, 1985), pp. 115-36.
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♦ “A Third World Perspective on Nuclear Disarmament”, in Reassessing Arms Control.
David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf, eds., (London: Macmillan, 1984), pp. 90-107.
♦ “Neither Abel nor Cain: A Framework of Indo-US Relations”, in New Perspectives on
America and South Asia. Robert M. Crunden, Manoj Joshi and Chandrasekhar Rao,
eds. (Delhi: Chanakya, 1984), pp.77-100.
Lectures/Occasional Papers/Monographs/Comments (in reverse chronological order)
♦ Public Lecture on “India, South Asia and the World,” at Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, 3 March 2017. The lecture was organized by the Department of
International Relations of the university.
♦ “The Creative Side of Partition,” IIC Occasional Publication 58 (New Delhi: India
International Centre, 2014).
♦ “Partition’s Benign Impacts: Resonances on Cultural Expressions”, NMML
Occasional Paper, New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2014, in press
(10,400 words).
♦ “Refugees and Migrants in South Asia: Nature and Implications”, NMML
Occasional Paper, New Series 10, New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library, 2013 (41,300 words, 122 pages).
♦ Public Lecture on “India’s Foreign Policy Priorities: South Asia, or China and the
World” at the Victoria University of Wellington on 3 October 2012. The lecture was
organized by the Centre for Strategic Studies of the university.
♦ Open Lecture on “Migrants, Refugees and Diasporas: the Indian Experience
University” at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, on 12 September 2012.The
lecture was organized by the Division of Humanities, Department of Anthropology &
Archaeology and the Asian Migrations Research Theme.
♦ Open Lecture on “Globalization and Delhi: Where to from Here?” at the Global
Cities Seminar of the RMIT in the Melbourne University on 22 August 2012.
♦ “Kashmir Revisited: Factoring Governance, Terrorism and Pakistan, as Usual,”
Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (Heidelberg
University), Working Paper No. 54, March 2010.
♦ The 2008 Annual Lecture of the Centre of South Asian Studies, School of
Oriental and African Studies, London, on 11 March 2008, on “Politics of Personal
Laws in South Asia”.
♦ “Area Studies in India: From Cold War to Globalization (With reference to
American and German Experiences)”, Special Lecture No. 5, Centre for South and
Southeast Asian Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies,
University of Calcutta, 2008.
♦ “Assam Within or Without India’s Northeast: A Perspective,” in The Academy of
Third World Studies, Contested Space and Identity in the Indian Northeast,
Proceedings of a seminar held in the Academy on 14 February 2008, Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi, 2008.
♦ “Electoral Politics in Arunachal Pradesh: An Analysis of the 14th
Loksabha Election,”
Report submitted to Omiya Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development,
Guwahati, 2005 (co-authored with Deepak Kumar Mishra and Vandana Upadhyay).
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♦ “Area Studies in India: From Cold War to Globalization,” The Fifth Bisheshwar
Prasad Memorial Lecture, Department of History, Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur
University, Bhagalpur, November 29, 2003.
♦ “From Legalism to Realism in Kashmir: Internationalising the Line of Control,”
Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (Heidelberg
University), Working Paper No. 7, September 2002.
♦ “Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Management: The Indian Case,” ICES Pamphlet
(International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka), No.2, 1996.
♦ “Rise of Political Hinduism in India: Genesis, Prognosis and Implications,” SWP
Monograph (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany), December
1995.
♦ “Population Movements and Interstate Conflicts in South Asia,” Environment and
Conflicts Project Occasional Paper (Centre for Security Studies and Conflict
Research, Zurich, and Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern), No.14, September 1995.
♦ “United States and India: The Reality and the Hope,” ACDIS Occasional Paper
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), March 1994.
Articles in Professional Journals (in reverse chronological order)
♦ “Region without Regionalism: Cooperation inSouth Asia,” Economic and Political
Weekly (Mumbai), 51(32), 6 August 2016, pp. 114-21.
♦ “The Other Side of Partition: Resonances of Cultural Expressions,”South Asia
Research (New Delhi), 35 (1), February 2015, pp. 42-60.
♦ “Migration and Culture: Experiences and Perspectives,” Lalit Kala Contemporary
(New Delhi), No 56, 2014, pp. 20-30 (co-author: Suparna Ghosh).
♦ “An Enigma that is South Asia: India versus the Region,” Asia Pacific Review
(Tokyo), 20 (1), May 2013, pp. 100-120.
♦ “Changing Frontiers: Making Deeper Sense of India-Bangladesh Relations,”South
Asia Research (New Delhi), 31 (3), November 2011, pp. 195-211.
♦ “The Elephant in the War: India and the Afghan-Pakistan Link,” Canadian Foreign
Policy Journal (Ottawa), 17 (1), March 2011, pp. 50-61 (co-author: Jorge Heine).
♦ “Social Science Research in India: An Institutional Analysis of the ICSSR
Experiment,” IASSI Quarterly—Contributions to Indian Social Science (New
Delhi), Vol. 29, No. 1, January-March 2010, pp. 23-51.
♦ “Politics of Personal Law in India: The Hindu-Muslim Dichotomy,” South Asia
Research (New Delhi), 29(1), 2009, pp. 1-17.
♦ “Islamic Extremism in South Asia,”International Journal Law, Crime and Justice
(Amsterdam) (formerly, International Journal of the Sociology of Law [Oxford]),
36(4), 2008, pp. 286-97.
♦ “Socio-Political Trends in Southern Asia: Security Implications for India,” Faultlines
(New Delhi), 17, 2006, pp. 73-104.
♦ “Conservative Ascendancy in Bangladesh,” South Asian Survey (New Delhi), 12(2),
July-December 2005, pp. 247-65.
♦ “The Role and Efficacy of Observers in Indian Elections: A Research Note,” Journal
of Politics (Dibrugarh), 11, 2004, pp. 1-27.
♦ “Globalization, Hegemony and Conflict in South Asia: An Indian Perspective,”
Sandhan (Journal of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations) (New Delhi), 4(1),
January-June 2004, pp. 1-50.
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♦ “Religious and Ethnic Politics as Impediments to Nation-Building in South Asia,”
Social Change and Development (Guwahati), 2(1), March 2004, pp. 79-104.
♦ Review article on Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World by
Akbar S. Ahmed (New Delhi: Vistaar, 2003) in Seminar (New Delhi), No. 532,
December 2003, pp. 81-84.
♦ “Challenge of Governance and Globalization: Case Study of India’s Northeast,”Ethnic
Studies Report(Kandy), 21(2), July 2003, pp. 149-78. Reproduced in Man and
Society(Shillong), 2(1), Spring 2005, pp. 21-55.
♦ “Explaining Mass Insanity,” Indian Social Science Review (New Delhi), 5(1),
January-June 2003, pp. 173-84. (It is a review essay.)
♦ “The Muslims, South Asia and the United States: A Post-Nine Eleven Analysis,”
South Asian Survey (New Delhi), 10(1), January-June 2003, pp. 101-23.
♦ “The Issue of Constitutional Reform and the LTTE,” Agni: Studies in International
Strategic Issues (New Delhi), 6(3), September-December 2002, pp. 57-85.
♦ “Sri Lanka’s Devolution Debate: Is India the Role Model?,” Indian Journal of
Federal Studies (New Delhi), 3(1), 2002, pp. 37-65.
♦ “The Issue of Personal and Customary Law in South Asia: A Political Analysis,”
Ethnic Studies Report (Kandy, Sri Lanka), 19(2), July-December 2001, pp. 179-206.
♦ “Chandrika’s Devolution Plan: A Study of Three Documents,” Indian Journal of
Federal Studies (New Delhi), 1(1), 2000, pp. 23-44.
♦ “Positive Discrimination in India: A Political Analysis,” Ethnic Studies Report
(Kandy, Sri Lanka), 15(2), July 1997, pp. 135-88.
♦ “Cross-Border Population Movements and Regional Security in South Asia,” Conflict
Studies (London), No.303, October 1997. pp. 1-23.
♦ “Language Policy and National Integration: The Indian Experience,” Ethnic
StudiesReport(Kandy, Sri Lanka), 14(1), January 1996, pp. 49-72.
♦ “Communal Hindu Politics in India: Foreign Policy Implications,” BIISS
Journal(Dhaka), 15(4), 1994, pp. 299-322.
♦ “Foreign Policy and Electoral Politics in India: Inconsequential Connection”, Asian
Survey (Berkeley), 34(9), September 1994, pp. 807-17.
♦ “Nuclear Rivalry in South Asia: Strategic Imperatives and National Pride,” Conflict
Studies(London), No.274, September 1994, pp. 1-22.
♦ “Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Religion and Politics,” Asian Survey(Berkeley), 32(7),
July 1993, pp. 697-710.
♦ “Bhutan: Ethnicity, Democracy and Nation-Building,” Ethnic Studies
Report(Kandy), 10(2), July 1992, 48-56.
♦ “Ram’s Devotees and Babur’s Offsprings,” Swords and Ploughshares(Urbana, IL.), 7
(3), Spring 1993, pp.15-17.
♦ “Integrational Problems in South Asia and Regional Security: A Politico-
Anthropological Approach,” BIISS Journal(Dhaka), 13(3), July 1992, pp. 367-81.
♦ “Local Elections in Sri Lanka”, ICSSR Newsletter(New Delhi), 21(3), Oct-Dec 1990,
pp. 1-14.
♦ “Beyond the American Melting Pot,” IIC Quarterly (New Delhi), 17(1), Spring,
1990, pp. 23-32.
♦ “International Terrorism: An Unending Malaise,” Indian Journal of Social
Science(New Delhi), 2(4), Oct-Dec 1989, pp. 527-544.
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♦ “Evolving Indo-Pak Relations,” Defense and Diplomacy (McLean, Va.), 7(5), 1989,
pp.10-13, 62.
♦ “Indo-Pak Strategic Divide,” Defense and Diplomacy (McLean, Va.), 6(10), 1988, pp.
55-58.
♦ “Terrorism and SAARC,” India Quarterly (New Delhi), 43(2), 1987, pp. 121-137.
♦ “Regionalism in South Asia: SAARC: Problems and Prospects,” Defense and
Diplomacy(McLean, Va.), 5(3), 1987, pp. 51-2, 63.
♦ “South Africa: The American Dilemma,” Africa Quarterly(New Delhi), 26(2-4),
1986-87, pp. 37-51.
♦ “Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in South Asia,” Conflict Studies(London), No.178,
September 1985.
♦ “India’s South-East Asia Policy,” China Report(New Delhi), 21(2), 1985, pp. 127-
142.
♦ “Afro-Indian Partnership: Poised for Steady Growth,” Third World(New Delhi),
Sept-Dec 1984, pp. 16-19.
♦ “World Oil Outlook: Some Policy Implications for India,” India Quarterly(New
Delhi), 39(4), 1983, pp. 393-407.
♦ “Non-Alignment and India,” Third World (New Delhi), Jan-Feb 1984, pp. 4-7.
♦ “India-Pakistan Relations: Problems and Prospects”, Foreign Affairs Report(New
Delhi), May 1983.
♦ “Domestic Support for Mrs. Gandhi’s Afghan Policy: Soviet Factor in Indian Politics,”
Asian Survey(Berkeley), 23(3), 1983, pp. 261-279. (Co-author: Rajaram Panda).
♦ “On Drawing a Red Herring,” Alternatives (New Delhi/New York), 8 (1), 1982, pp.
131-138.
♦ “China as an Oil Power: Grim Outlook,” China Report (New Delhi), 17(6), 1981, pp.
9-31.
♦ “Domestic Sources of India’s Policy of Non-Alignment,” India Quarterly (New
Delhi), 36(3-4), 1978, pp. 348-362.
♦ “From Red Scare to McCarthyism: Building of National Images: The American
Experience,” China Report(New Delhi), 14(5-6), 1978, pp. 27-46.
♦ “Passage of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934: The Silver Lobby and the Issue of a
Declining China Trade,” Indian Journal of American Studies (Hyderabad), 6(1-2),
1976, pp. 27-43.
♦ “Evolution of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1784-1929: A Survey,” Asian
Study (Quezon City, Philippines), 14(3), 1976, pp. 27-43.
♦ “American Perception of the Sino-Soviet Relations, 1949-53: A Survey of
Contemporary Appraisals”, The Indian Journal of Political Science(New Delhi),
37(4), 1976, pp. 58-74.
♦ “Sino-American Economic Relations, 1929-1939,” International Studies (New
Delhi), 15(3), 1976, pp. 343-364.
♦ “Present State of American Zionism and the Middle East Crisis of 1967,” The
Quarterly Review of Historical Studies(Calcutta), 15(3), 1975-76, pp. 151-157.
Articles in popular magazines,journals and e-journals (in chronological order)
♦ “Limits of Diplomacy”, Mainstream (New Delhi), 19(52), 29 August 1981, pp. 28-30.
♦ “Uncertainty in Bangladesh,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 20(30), 27 March 1982, pp.
15-16.
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♦ “Bangladesh: What Next?,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 20 (31), 2 April 1982, pp. 7-8.
♦ “Ershad’s Problems and Promises,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 20(34), 24 April 1982,
pp.8-10, 34.
♦ “Indian Development: Problem Primarily Political,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 20(47),
24 July 1982, pp. 17-19.
♦ “Approach to Disarmament,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 21(2), September 1982, pp. 19-
20.
♦ “Indo-Pak Relations: Portents and Uncertainties,” Mainstream (New Delhi, 22(24), 12
February 1983.
♦ “Kashmir Politics: Some Reflections,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 21(45), 9 July 1983,
pp.31-33 (co-author: Indra Ghosh)
♦ “Reflections on Karachi Riots,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 25(28), 28 March 1987, pp.
9-10, 30.
♦ “Afghan Accord: An Analysis”, Mainstream (New Delhi), 26(34), 4 June 1988, pp. 20-
21.
♦ “United States: Conservative Judiciary Threatens Civil Rights,” Economic and Political
Weekly (Bombay), 20 January 1990.
♦ “Bangladesh: The Communal Scene,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 28(20), 10 March
1990, pp. 21-23.
♦ “Afghan Imbroglio: Solution on Whose Term?,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 28(27), 28
April 1990, pp. 11-13.
♦ “Kashmir Tangle and Indo-Pak Relations: Some Suggestions,” Mainstream (New
Delhi), 28(34,35) 16, 23 June 1990, pp. 15-17 and 33-35, respectively. (In two parts.)
♦ “Our Gulf Policy: Some Nagging Doubts,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 28 (46), 8.
September 1990.
♦ “Ram Temple Controversy: Time for Dispassionate Introspection,” Mainstream (New
Delhi), 29(4), 17 November 1990, pp. 9-13.
♦ “Bangladesh Politics: Many Imponderables,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 15 December
1990, pp. 3-4, 34-35.
♦ “Post Gulf War Foreign Policy: Need for Rethinking,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 30
March 1991, pp. 27-31.
♦ “Foreign Policy: Status Quo or Change?” Mainstream (New Delhi), 6 July 1991, pp.
25-26.
♦ “Whither Our Foreign Policy? Let’s Debate,” Link (New Delhi), 34 (29), 1 March
1992, pp. 25-26.
♦ “Sinhala-Tamil Ethnic Conflict and India,” Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay),
30(25), 24 June 1995, pp. 1486-88.
♦ “Uniform Civil Code: History of a Controversy,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 33(33), 8
July 1995, pp. 17-19.
♦ “Chandrika’s Federal Package: A Political Analysis,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 33(43),
16 September 1995, pp. 9-12. (Reproduced in Lanka Guardian of Colombo, 1 October
1995, pp. 9-11.)
♦ “Science versus Superstition: Reflections on the Milk Miracle,” Mainstream (New
Delhi), 33(45), 30 September 1995, pp. 5-6.
♦ “Kashmir: An Alternative Perspective,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 33(35), 3 August
1996, pp. 11-17.
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♦ “Sri Lanka: The Devolution Debate,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 37(20), 8 May 1999,
pp. 9-12.
♦ “Ethnicity and Citizenship in Sri Lanka: Impressions of a Visit to Jaffna,” Economic
and Political Weekly (Mumbai), 34(25), 19-25 June 1999, pp. 1570-75.
♦ “Elections 1999: Whither Indian Polity?,” Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai),
34(48), 27 November 1999, pp. 3340-42.
♦ “Battle for Jaffna: The Indian Dilemma,” Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai),
35(20), 13 May 2000, p. 1719.
♦ “Accreditation of Social Science Institutes: A Preliminary Note,” Economic and
Political Weekly (Mumbai), 35(42), 14 October 2000, pp. 3729-32.
♦ “ICSSR and Social Science Research,” Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai),
36(7), 17 February 2001, pp. 528-29.
♦ “Not Just America’s War,” Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), 36(42), 20
October 2001, p. 3987.
♦ “Human Rights, Terrorism, and Tolerance: The Case of India,” Liberal Times (New
Delhi), 10(1), January 2002, pp. 4-8.
♦ “Constitutional Crisis in Sri Lanka: Advantage LTTE,” Economic and Political Weekly
(Mumbai), 38(46), 15 November 2003, pp.4839-40.
♦ “Comparing Migrant Scenes in India and Japan,” World Focus (New Delhi), 26 (6-7),
June-July 2005, pp. 33-38.
♦ “Discourse on Uniform Civil Code in Bangladesh,” Mainstream (New Delhi), 44(8), 11
February 2006, pp. 13-18. [Reproduced in Women’s Watch (New Delhi), 3(3), April-
June 2006, pp. 5-10.]
♦ “Beyond the Rhetoric,” (Cover Story on NAM Summit, Havana) Frontline (Chennai),
23(19), 23 September-6 October 2006, pp. 7-9.
♦ “Role of the Army in Bangladesh Politics,” World Focus (New Delhi), 28 (4), April
2007, pp. 132-36.
♦ “To and Fro India with Love,” IIC Quarterly (New Delhi), 39(2), Autumn 2012: 54-66.
♦ “How not to run an Organization,” Seminar (New Delhi), No. 682, June 2016: 81-83.
♦ “Saarc seems to have been taken to the morgue from the ICU. Here’s why it needs to be
revived,” Scroll.in, 7 October 2016
<http://scroll.in/article/818357/saarc-seems-to-have-been-taken-to-the-morgue-from-
the-icu-heres-why-it-needs-to-be-revived>
♦ “It’s complicated: The China factor in India-Nepal relationship,” Scroll.in, 23 October
2016
<http://scroll.in/article/819705/its-complicated-the-china-factor-in-india-nepal-
relationship>
♦ “Sheikh Hasina visit: Rising Hindutva could damage the future of India-Bangladesh
relationship,”Scroll.in, 10 April 2017
<https://scroll.in/article/834027/rising-hindutva-could-damage-the-future-of-india-
bangladesh-relationship>
Articles in Magazines/Newspapers (in chronological order)
♦ “India and the U.S.: High Priority for India,” The Morning Echo Magazine (New
Delhi), 1-7 January 1978, pp. 7-8.
♦ “The Other Indians,” Sunday (Calcutta), 16 April 1978, pp. 23-25.
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♦ “North-South Dialogue: Can the Poor Become Rich?,” Career and Competition Times
(New Delhi), November 1981, pp. 10-11.
♦ “Food: Uneven Distribution with Higher Output,” The Statesman (Calcutta), 29
December 1981.
♦ “Cancun Summit: Empty Rhetoric,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
January 1982, pp. 10-11.
♦ “East-West Relations: A New Chill,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
April 1982, pp. 12-13.
♦ “World Oil Outlook,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 2 April 1982.
♦ “India’s Foreign Policy: A Flexible Approach,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), June 1982, pp. 12-14.
♦ “Mrs. Gandhi Goes to Washington,” Sunday Observer (Bombay), 11 July 1982.
♦ “Wanted: A Will to Disarmament,” The Telegraph (Calcutta), 15-16 October 1982 (in
two parts).
♦ “Indo-American Relations: The Ice Melts,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), October 1982, pp. 10-11.
♦ “USA and the Pacific: How the Soviet Threat Helps,” TheStatesman (New Delhi), 29
November 1982. Reproduced in Jang (Lahore), 16 December 1982.
♦ “The World in 1982,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), February 1983, pp.
21-30, 63-65 (co-author Sanjukta Banerji).
♦ “India’s Africa Policy,” The Statesman (New Delhi), 15-16 February 1983 (in two
parts).
♦ “Indo-US Relations: Promise of More Active Cooperation,” The Statesman (New
Delhi), 7 June 1983.
♦ Indo-Pak Relations: War and Peace, Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
August 1983, pp. 16-17.
♦ “Outlook for Oil: Meeting the Challenges Ahead,” The Statesman (New Delhi), 13-14
September 1983.
♦ “South-South Links: Need to Replace Rhetoric by Action,” The Statesman (New
Delhi), 20 February 1984.
♦ “Lebanon Crisis: Unmaking of a Nation,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
June 1984, pp. 8-10.
♦ “SAARC and the Chakmas: Little Scope for Delhi-Dhaka Efforts,” The Statesman
(New Delhi), 16 February 1986.
♦ “SAARC: An Exercise in Cooperation,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
May 1987, pp. 67-68.
♦ “Sri Lanka: In a State of Terror,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), June
1987, pp. 9-10, 26.
♦ “Indian Security Scenario,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), July 1987, pp.
9-10, 16.
♦ “South Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?,” Asahi Evening News (Tokyo), 14 August 1987.
♦ “India-Sri Lanka: An Accord in Trouble,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
January 1988, pp. 9-10.
♦ “Indo-Sri Lanka Accord: What Price Peace?,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), February 1988, pp. 12-13.
♦ “Bangladesh: The General’s Elections,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
March 1988, pp. 9-10, 51.
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♦ “The Indo-Pak-Afghan Triangle,” Asahi Evening News (Tokyo), 14 June 1988.
♦ “Pakistan After Zia,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), October 1988, pp.
13, 72.
♦ “Pakistan Goes Democratic,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), January
1989, pp. 15-16.
♦ “Elections in Sri Lanka,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), February 1989,
p. 40.
♦ “SAARC: Problems and Promises,” Current World Leaders (Santa Barbara, CA),
32(1), February 1989, pp. 92-99.
♦ “Indians in America Have to Join the Political Process,” Times of India (New Delhi),
14 March 1989.
♦ “Indo-Nepal Relations: An Uneasy Past,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
June 1989, pp. 14-16.
♦ “Testing Time for Benazir,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), December
1989, pp. 16-17.
♦ “Sri Lanka: The Crisis Deepens,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
December 1989, pp. 16-17.
♦ “America: A Nation of Immigrants,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
January 1990, pp. 64-65.
♦ “Bangladesh: The Islamic Revival,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi),
March 1990, pp. 57-58.
♦ “Indo-Pak Relations: Tension on the Mount,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), April 1990, pp. 17-18, 22.
♦ “Afghanistan: Stormy Politics,” Career and Competition Times (New Delhi), May
1990, pp. 14-18.
♦ “Nepal: Coming to Terms with Democracy,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), June 1990, pp. 14-15.
♦ “Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Strife: Fall-out in Tamil Nadu,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 27
June 1990.
♦ “Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology: Political Islam or Islamic Politics?,” Financial Express
(New Delhi), 11 July 1990.
♦ “Constitution-Making in Nepal: The Most Crucial Question,” Financial Express (New
Delhi), 25 July 1990.
♦ “Sri Lanka: Will Premadasa Square up to the Challenge?,” Financial Express (New
Delhi), 9, 10,11, 12 August 1990 (in four parts).
♦ “Indo-Nepal Relations: Terms of Endearment,” Career and Competition Times (New
Delhi), August 1990, pp. 14-16.
♦ “Pakistan, Gulf Crisis and India’s Security,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 22 August
1990.
♦ “The Other Tamils: Indian Labourers in Sri Lanka,” The Statesman (New Delhi), 8
September 1990.
♦ “More Heads to Ponder over Security,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 9 September
1990.
♦ “Burying Superpower Hatchets,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 23 September 1990.
♦ “Civilian Control over the Military: The Essence of Democracy,” Financial Express
(New Delhi), 30 September 1990.
♦ “Bhutan: The Indian Connection,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 7 October 1990.
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♦ “New Twist to Sri Lanka Ethnic Strife,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 14 October
1990.
♦ US Budget: Still on the Tightrope,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 21 October 1990.
♦ “Pakistan’s Experiment with Democracy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 4
November 1990.
♦ “Secularism and South Asia,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 16 November 1990.
♦ “SAARC: An Experiment worth Pursuing,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 18
November 1990.
♦ “SAARC: From Rhetoric to Rhetoric,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 2 December
1990.
♦ “Time for Social Assimilation,” The Hindu (Madras/New Delhi), 4 December 1990.
(An article on Indian-Americans.)
♦ “The Great Survivor in Retreat,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 9 December 1990.
♦ “Awami-BNP Disagree on Form of Government,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 16
December 1990.
♦ “A Critical Issue,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 23 December 1990. (An article on
DMK-LTTE nexus controversy.)
♦ “South Asia: Mixed Experiences” (a 1990 retrospective), Financial Express (New
Delhi), 30 December 1990.
♦ Have the Tigers Changed their Trails,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 6 January 1991.
♦ “Bangladesh Economy at its Nadir,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 13 January 1991.
♦ “South Asia: Uneasy Interaction,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 27 January 1991.
♦ “The Gulf Crisis and South Asia,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 3 February 1991.
♦ “Indo-Sri Lanka Relations: Discord over an Accord,” Financial Express (New Delhi),
10 February 1991.
♦ “US Matters to India,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 17 February 1991.
♦ “Fair Elections a Possibility,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 24 February 1991.
♦ “Indo-Nepalese Relations,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 24 February 1991.
♦ “Assam: Census and the Ethnic Problem,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 3 March
1991.
♦ “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 10 March 1991.
♦ “Post Gulf War Scenario: The US Factor,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 11 March
1991.
♦ “Bangladesh in Ferment,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 17 March 1991.
♦ “Low Priority to Foreign Policy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 31 March 1991.
♦ “Kashmir and US: Limits to Diplomacy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 14 April
1991.
♦ “Lankan Local Bodies Poll,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 14 April 1991.
♦ “Indo-Pak Ties: Question of Confidence Building,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 21
April 1991.
♦ “Nepal’s Slow March to People’s Rule,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 28 April
1991.
♦ “Pakistan: Shariat Bill in Perspective,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 5 May 1991.
♦ “Election Time in South Asia,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 12 May 1991.
♦ “South Asia’s Killing Fields,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 26 May 1991.
♦ “Nepal’s Hour of Democracy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 26 May 1991.
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♦ “A Landmark Lankan Poll,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 2 June 1991.
♦ “Who is the Culprit?,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 2 June 1991.
♦ “Battle of the Law and Politics [in Bangladesh],” Financial Express (New Delhi), 16
June 1991.
♦ “Tigers—A Threat to India, Lanka,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 30 June 1991.
♦ “Shariat Act in South Asian Perspective,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 7 July 1991.
♦ “Foreign Policy: In Search of a Direction,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 21 July
1991.
♦ “SAARC—Inching Forward,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 21 July 1991.
♦ “The Indian Tamils: Problems of Mistaken Identity,” Financial Express (New Delhi),
28 July 1991.
♦ “Kashmir: Would New Delhi and Islamabad Listen?,” Financial Express (New Delhi),
4 August 1991.
♦ “Bhandari vs. Ghising: Wrangle for Leadership,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 11
August 1991.
♦ “Bangladesh: Old Wine in Old Bottle,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 18 August
1991.
♦ “The Return of Mikhail Sergeyvich Gorbachev,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 25
August 1991.
♦ “SAARC: On Strong Political Grounds,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 25 August
1991.
♦ “Indo-Pak Ties: Old Ballgame or New Game Plan,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 1
September 1991.
♦ “Sri Lanka: The Battle-line is Drawn,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 8 September
1991.
♦ “Non-Alignment Still Relevant,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 22 September 1991.
♦ “Dhaka Back to People’s Rule,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 6 October 1991.
♦ “Sri Lanka: An Ethnic Conundrum,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 13 October 1991.
♦ “Indo-Pak Relations: Rhetoric vs. Policy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 3
November 1991.
♦ “SAARC: Past Imperfect, Future Tense,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 17
November 1991.
♦ “Controversy over Tin Bigha,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 25 November 1991.
♦ “Indo-Nepal Ties: On Shifting Grounds,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 15
December 1991.
♦ “South Asia 1991,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 29 December 1991.
♦ “The Nuclear Question,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 26 January 1992.
♦ “Democracy a Far Cry in Myanmar,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 2 February 1992.
♦ “Tracking the Tiger,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 9 February 1992.
♦ “Playing on Brinkmanship,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 16 February 1992.
♦ “Terrorism and Foreign Policy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 8 March 1992.
♦ “Challenges to Our Foreign Policy,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 5 April 1992.
♦ “Wooing the West,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 26 April 1992.
♦ “Afghanistan: Many Imponderables,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 10 May 1992.
♦ “Political Aspects of Debate on Reforms,” The Hindu (Madras/New Delhi), 4 June
1992.
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♦ “Thimpu Trends,” The Statesman (Calcutta/New Delhi), 8-9 September 1992.
♦ “A Risk Worth Taking,” Financial Express (New Delhi), 31 October 1993.
♦ “Hindu Nationalism: Genesis and Prognosis,” Der Uberblick (Hamburg), 29(4),
December 1993. (In German)
♦ “Kashmiriyat or Islamiyat: Pakistan’s Dilemma,” Mirror Today (New Delhi), April
1994, pp. 27-28.
♦ “Ominous Portents: The Role of Sadhus in Indian Politics,” The Hindustan Times (New
Delhi), 17 April 1994.
♦ “Personal Law: Uniform Civil Code Still a Dream,” The Statesman (Calcutta/New
Delhi), 14 May 1994.
♦ “Sri Lanka’s Indo-Centric Attitude Can be Disastrous,” The Asian Age (New Delhi), 25
April 1995.
♦ “The Two Scenarios for Sri Lanka,” Times of India (New Delhi), 16 May 1995.
♦ “Politics of Uniform Civil Code,” The Hindustan Times (New Delhi), 22 May 1995.
♦ “Sri Lanka Package: Potential Threat to LTTE,” The Statesman (Calcutta/New Delhi),
17 October 1995.
♦ “Risk in Dhaka,” Times of India (New Delhi), 26 March 1996.
♦ “Meeting the Demographic Challenge,” Bulletin: The Japan Foundation (New Delhi),
No. 7, May 1996, pp. 2-5.
♦ “Staaten Machen Hiematlos,” Der Uberblick (Hamburg), 33(2), June 1997, pp. 65-67.
(In German.)
♦ “Bomb, Science and the State,” The Hindu (Chennai/New Delhi), 9 June 1998.
♦ “The Rewriting of History,” The Hindu (Chennai/New Delhi), 15 July 1998.
♦ “Illegal Immigration from Bangladesh,” The Hindu (Chennai/New Delhi), 11 and 12
August 1998. (In two parts.)
♦ “A Visit to Jaffna: Some Reflections,” The Island (Colombo), 10 February 1999.
♦ “Need for Open Diplomacy: Indo-Pak Dialogue,” The Hindu (Chennai/New Delhi), 11
May 1999.
♦ “Are Khaki Shorts Calling the Shots?,” Sunday Times of India (New Delhi), 13
February 2000.
♦ “Japan’s Contribution to International Cooperation in Science,” Key Issues (New
Delhi), 3(1), March 2000, pp. 31-41.
♦ “Sri Lanka: The Devolution Discourse,” The Hindu (Chennai/New Delhi), 6, 7 July
2000 (in two parts).
♦ “Solution is Suggested in Dispute over Ayodhya Site,” India Abroad (Chicago), 12
January 2001. Also appeared as a syndicated column in several English dailies in India
under the title “Ram Temple on the Somnath Model.”
♦ “Communal Harmony amidst Disaster,” LokmatTimes (Nagpur), 15 March 2001. Also
appeared as a syndicated column in several other English dailies in India.
♦ “Who’s Afraid of Astrology?” Times of India (New Delhi), 22 June 2001.
♦ “ICSSR and Dissemination of Knowledge,” The Pioneer (New Delhi), 28 January
2002.
♦ “BJP’s Problem: Time for Change,” Times of India (New Delhi), 3 March 2002.
♦ “Why Did the Indian State Fail Once Again in Gujarat?” News India Times (New
York), 22 March 2002. Also appeared as a syndicated column in several English
dailies in India.
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♦ “Watching the Vote: Observers an Asset in Kashmir,” Times of India (New Delhi), 16
August 2002.
♦ “Land that blends Tradition with Modernity—A Sojourn to Japan,” Bulletin of the
Japan Foundation New Delhi Office (New Delhi), Issue No. 46, April-June 2003, pp. 1-
7.
♦ “Decoding Personal Laws,” Sahara Time (New Delhi), 9 August 2003.
♦ “Our Quixotic India,” The Sentinel (Guwahati), September 2003.
♦ “Sri Lanka: Chandrika-Ranil Face-Off,” The Sentinel (Guwahati), 15 November 2003.
♦ “Women in Politics,” Times of India (New Delhi), 14 December 2006.
♦ “Not Ordinary Bill,” Times of India (New Delhi), 20 March 2007.
♦ “India’s Strategic Stalemate,” Geopolitics (New Delhi), May 2010, pp. 36-39.
♦ “The Geopolitics of Kashmir,” Geopolitics (New Delhi), October 2010, pp. 18-20.
♦ “India’s Flawed Sri Lanka Policy,”Geopolitics (New Delhi), April 2013, pp. 76-77.
♦ “More Questions than Answers [Sri Lanka],”Geopolitics (New Delhi), February 2015,
pp. 67-69.
♦ “Sri Lanka: Mature Politics, Immature Constitutionalism,”Geopolitics (New Delhi),
September 2015, pp. 62-64.
Book Reviews (in chronological order)
♦ Civil Liberties and Democracy by S.M. Habibuddin. Indian Journal of American
Studies (Hyderabad), 9 (1), January 1981.
♦ Bangladesh by Subrata Bannerji, Mainstream (New Delhi), 20 (37), 15 May 1982.
♦ Jawaharlal Nehru, Franklin D. Roosevelt and America by K.S.Sivanna. Indian Journal
of American Studies (Hyderabad), 12 (2), 1982.
♦ India and the Non-Aligned World: Search for a New Order Hari Jaisingh, and In
Pursuit of Peace: On Non-Alignment and Regional Cooperation by A.C.S. Hameed.
Book Review (New Delhi), 8(2), 1984.
♦ US-Pak Relations, 1947-83 by Rashmi Jain. Book Review (New Delhi), 8(5), 1984
♦ Cancun to New Delhi: South-South Cooperation by Brojendra Nath Bannerji. Social
Action Book Review Supplement (New Delhi), 1984.
♦ Introduction to International Relations by Pierre Marie Martin. Social Action Book
Review Supplement (New Delhi), June 1987.
♦ The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic
Perspectives by Rasul B. Rais. Social Action Book Review Supplement (New Delhi), 4
(5), October 1987.
♦ Indo-Soviet Relations: Problems and Prospects by Vinod Bhatia, ed. India Quarterly
(New Delhi), 43(2), 1987.
♦ Pakistan in the 80’s: Ideology, Regionalism, Economy, Foreign Policy by Wolfgang
Peter Zingel and Stephanie Ave Lallemant , eds. South Asia Journal (New Delhi), 1(2),
1987.
♦ Political Dimensions of India-USSR Relations by S.P. Singh. Mainstream (New
Delhi), 26(11), 26 December 1987.
♦ India and Indochina: Perspectives of Cooperation by T.N. Kaul, ed. Social Action
Book Review Supplement (New Delhi), 5(1), 1988.
♦ The Non-Aligned Movement: The Soviet View by Ivan Kovalenko and Rais
Tuzmukhamedov. Social Action Book Review Supplement (New Delhi), 5(2), 1988.
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♦ Indian Response to Second World War by Manzoor Ahmad. Social Action Book Review
Supplement (New Delhi), 5(3), June 1988.
♦ The Security of South Asia: American and Asian Perspectives by Stephen Philip Cohen,
ed. IIC Quarterly (New Delhi), 16 (2), Summer 1989.
♦ The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and Politics by Satish Chandra,
ed. Indian Journal of Political Science (Madras), 50(20, April-June 1989.
♦ Yearbook on India’s Foreign Policy, 1987/1988 by Satish Kumar, ed. South Asia
Journal (New Delhi), 3(3), 1990.
♦ Asian Panorama—Essays in Asian History, Past and Present by K.M. de Silva, Sirima
Kiribamune and C.R. de Silva, eds.; South Asian Strategic Issues: Sri Lankan
Perspectives by Shelton U. Kodikara, ed.; Sri Lanka’s Veddas in Transition by K.N.O.
Dharmadasa and S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe; Women at the Crossroads: A Sri Lankan
Perspective by Sirima Kiribamune and Vidyamali Samarasinghe, eds., Financial
Express (New Delhi), 28 October 1990.
♦ War and Secession: Pakistan, India and the Creation of Bangladesh Richard Sission
and Leo E. Rose, Indian Journal of Social Science (New Delhi), 4(2), April-June 1991.
♦ South Asian Strategic Issues: Sri Lankan Perspectives by Shelton U. Kodikara, ed. IIC
Quarterly (New Delhi), 1991.
♦ A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble by Jonathan Spencer. Financial Express (New
Delhi), 7 April 1991.
♦ Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia by Veena Das,ed.
Mainstream (New Delhi), 27 June 1992.
♦ Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 by
Gordon H. Chang. China Report (New Delhi), 28(3), 1992.
♦ The ‘Traditional Homelands’ of the Tamils: Separatist Ideology in Sri Lanka: A
Historical Appraisal by K.M. de Silva. Mainstream (New Delhi), 33(30), 17 June
1995.
♦ The ‘Traditional Homelands’ of the Tamils: Separatist Ideology in Sri Lanka: A
Historical Appraisal by K.M. de Silva. Pacific Affairs (Vancouver), 69(2), Summer
1996.
♦ National Security: An Outline of Our Concerns by Jaswant Singh. Mainstream (New
Delhi), 34(13), 2 March 1995.
♦ Sri Lanka: The Travails of a Democracy, Unfinished War, Protracted Crisis by Dayan
Jayatilleka. Ethnic Studies Report (Kandy), 14(1), January 1996.
♦ J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka: A Political Biography, vol.2, From 1956 to his
Retirement (1989) by K.M. de Silva and Howard Wriggins. Economic and Political
Weekly (Bombay), 31(12), 23 March 1996.
♦ Ethnic Conflict and Security Crisis in Sri Lanka by S.S. Misra. Mainstream (New
Delhi), 34(26), 1 June 1996.
♦ The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal by
Ranabir Samaddar. Indian Social Science Review (New Delhi), 1(2), 1999.
♦ Bharatiya Janata Party: From Periphery to Centre by C.P. Bhambri. Seminar (New
Delhi), No. 506, October 2001.
♦ Path to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology by Dipak
K. Gupta, and Scarred Minds: The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils
by Daya Somasundaram. Indian Social Science Review (New Delhi), 5(1), January-
June 2003. It is a review essay.
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♦ Review article on Islam under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World by
Akbar S. Ahmed (New Delhi: Vistaar, 2003). Seminar (New Delhi), No. 532,
December 2003, pp.
♦ Japan by Hiroichi Yamaguchi (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2006). Economic and
Political Weekly (Mumbai), 43(4), 26 January-February 2008, pp. 33-35.
♦ Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity and Language in an Islamic Nation by
Sufia M. Uddin (New Delhi: Vistaar Publications, 2006). South Asian Survey (New
Delhi), 2007.
♦ Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-47 by Rakesh Batabyal
(New Delhi: Sage, 2005). South Asian Survey (New Delhi), 2008.
♦ The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India by Ujjwal Kumar Singh (New
Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007). South Asian Survey (New Delhi).
♦ Rise of the Plebeians: The Changing Face of Indian Legislative Assemblies by
Christophe Jaffrelot and Sanjay Kumar, eds. (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009), ICSSR
Newsletter (New Delhi), 2009.
♦ South and Central Asia: Issues of Peace and Development, edited by Neetu Gaur and
Vijay Laxmi. ICSSR Newsletter (New Delhi), 2010.
♦ States in Conflict with their Minorities: Challenges to Minority Rights in South Asia by
Rita Manchanda, ed. (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2010).Book Review (New Delhi),
35(3), March 2011, pp. 27-28.
♦ Mapping Citizenship in India by Anupama Roy (New Delhi: OUP, 2010). Economic
and Political Weekly (Mumbai), 46(11), 12 March 2011, pp. 28-30.
♦ Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia by Ishtiaq Ahmed (ed.) (London:
Routledge, 2011) and Foundational Crisis in South and Southeast Asia: Bangladesh,
Indonesia and Malaysia by Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed (New Delhi: Akansha,2011).
Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), 47(2), 14 January 2012, pp. 34-36.
♦ Varieties of Federal Governance: Major Contemporary Models by Rekha Saxena (ed.)
(New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2011). Book Review (New Delhi), 36(3), March 2012,
pp. 7-8.
♦ Rebuilding Communities in the Wake of Disaster: Social Recovery in Sri Lanka and
India by Martin Mulligan and Yaso Nadarajah (New Delhi: Routledge, 2012). Global
Policy (London), 13 June 2012.
♦ The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013). Strategic Analysis (New Delhi), 39(1), 2015, pp.
92-94.
♦ The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics by Ayesha Jalal
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). India International Centre
Quarterly, 42(1), Summer 2015: 142-45.
♦ Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia: Perspectives from India, Nepal
and Sri Lanka by Siri Hettige and Eva Gerharz (ed.) (New Delhi: Sage Publications,
2015). Book Review (New Delhi), 40(10), October 2016, pp. 32-33.
Unpublished Manuscript
♦ “Politics of India’s Non-Alignment and the U.S.-Soviet Factor,” 1984, report of an
ICSSR-funded project (available in the ICSSR-NASSDOC Library, 35 Ferozeshah
Road, New Delhi –110 001).
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♦ “India-Bangladesh Border Fence: The Financial, Political and Diplomatic Costs,” 2014,
report of an ICSSR-funded project (available in the ICSSR-NASSDOC Library, 35
Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi –110 001).