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“India’s Watershed Vote: Hindu Nationalism in Power?”, Journal of Democracy, October 2014.
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“Caste and Entrepreneurship in India” (with Lakshmi Iyer and Tarun Khanna), Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, 2013.
"Battles Half Won: Political Economy of India’s Growth and Economic Policy Since Independence" (with Sadiq Ahmed), in Chetan Ghate, ed, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Two Banks of the Same River? Social Order and Entrepreneurialism in India" in Partha Chatterjee and Ira Katznelson, eds, Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States, Oxford University Press, 2012.
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"Final Reflections: Looking Back, Moving Forward" (with Patrick Barron, Sana Jaffrey and Blair Palmer), in Ashutosh Varshney, ed, Collective Violence in Indonesia, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010.
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"Poverty and Famines: An Extension" in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, eds, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, Oxford University Press, 2009.
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"Lasting Injuries, Recuperative Possibilities: The Trajectory of an Insufficient National Imagination" in Daniel Alan Herwitz and Ashutosh Varshney, eds, Midnight’s Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
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"Recognizing the Tradeoffs We Make", Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods, Spring 2006.
"India’s Identity Politics: Then and Now" (with Vibha Pingle), in David A. Kelly, Ramkishen S. Rajan, and Gillian H. L. Goh, eds, Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India, Singapore: World Scientific Book Corporation on behalf of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 2006.
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"Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality", Perspectives on Politics, March 2003. Reprinted in Matthew Evangelista, ed, Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2005.
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