Books by Ashoka faculty members are listed in this section.
The Ashoka faculty has immensely contributed to the scholarly literature in the field of Social Sciences, Art & Humanities, Literature, Sciences and others. Here is the selected list of books authored, translated and edited by the Ashoka faculty.
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nund Rishi: poetry and politics in medieval Kashmir | 2023 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
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| 1 | Beyond the Boulevards: A Short Biography of Pondicherry | 2019 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
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| 1 | English women’s spiritual utopias, 1400-1700 : new kingdoms of womanhood | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
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| 1. | An Enquiry into the nature of Liberation : Bhatta Ramakantha's | 2013 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poetry of Belonging : Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950 | 2020 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Finding the Raga : an Improvisation on Indian music | 2021 |
| 2. | Sojourn | 2022 |
| 3. | Memory's Gold : Writings on Calcutta | |
| 4. | Three novels: A strange and sublime address, Afternoon raag and Freedom song | 2001 |
| 5. | Freedom Song : Three Novels | 1999 |
| 6. | Calcutta : two years in the city | 2013 |
| 7. | Small orange flags : on living during a state of emergency | 2004 |
| 8. | Sweet Shop : New and selected poems 1985 - 2023 | 2023 |
| 9. | Against Storytelling | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | In the Belly of the River : Tribal Conflict Over Development in the Narmada Valley | 1997 |
| 2. | Contested Grounds : Essays on Nature, Culture and Power | 2008 |
| 3. | Untouchability in Rural India | 2009 |
| 4. | Elite and Everyman | 2011 |
| 5. | Waterlines : The Penguin Book of River Writings | 2009 |
| 6. | First Garden of the Republic : Nature in the President's Estate | 2016 |
| 7. | Uncivil City : Ecology, Equity and the commons in Delhi | 2020 |
| 8. | Climate change and critical Agrarian Studies | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Women's sexuality and modern India: in a rapture of distress | 2023 |
| 2. | The Parrots of desire : 3,000 years of Indian erotica | 2017 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andre Beteille Omnibus: Caste, Class and Power | 2012 |
| 2 | Democracy and its Institutions | 2017 |
| 3 | Universities at the Crossroads | 2014 |
| 5 | Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in Tanjore Village | 2010 |
| 6 | Marxism and Class Analysis | 2010 |
| 4 | Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method | 2010 |
| 7 | Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille | 2011 |
| 8 | Sunlight on the Garden: A Story of Childhood and Youth | 2012 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Imperial Andamans : Colonial Encounter and Island History | 2010 |
| 2. | My Son’s Inheritance : A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India | 2020 |
| 3. | Waiting for Swaraj : the inner lives of Indian Revolutionaries | 2021 |
| 4. | Revolutionaries on trial: sedition, betrayal and martyrdom | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | India’s War : A Military History, 1947 – 1972 | 2008 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives | 2011 |
| 2 | Affirmative Action in India | 2013 |
| 3 | The Grammar of Caste : Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India | 2017 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | International Aid and Democracy Promotion : Liberalization at the Margins | 2021 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Structural Econometrics: Essays in Methodology and Applications in Memory of Sanghamitra Das | 2010 |
| 2 | Economic theory and policy : Essays in honour of dipak banerjee | 1990 |
| 3 | Theoretical issues in development economics | 1993 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Poverty and the Quest for Life : Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India | 2015 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | How not to kill yourself : a portrait of the suicidal mind | 2023 |
| 2. | Love and lies :an essay on truthfulness, deceit, and the growth and care of erotic love | 2015 |
| 3. | How to sell : A Novel | 2009 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indira | 2018 |
| 2 | The Vague Woman's handbook | 2011 |
| 3 | The Heat and dust project : the broke couple's guide to BharaH | 2015 |
| 4 | Friends from college | 2019 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Semantics and the ontology of number: Cambridge elements the philosophy of mathematics | 2021 |
| 2. | Number concepts : an interdisciplinary inquiry | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ten Ideologies: The Great Asymmetry Between Agrarianism and Industrialism | 2018 |
| 2. | Oxford India Gandhi: Essential Writings | 2011 |
| 3. | Gandhi is Gone: Who Will Guide Us Now | 2011 |
| 4. | Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches | 2011 |
| 5. | Contributions to south asian studies 1 | 1979 |
| 6. | Contributions to south asian studies 1 | 1982 |
| 7. | My dear Bapu : letters form C. Rajagopalachari to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Devadas Gandhi and Gopalkrishna Gandhi | 2012 |
| 8. | Restless as mercury : my life as a young man | 2021 |
| 9. | Scorching love : letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to his son, Devadas | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Nine Chambered Heart | 2017 |
| 2. | Seahorse : A Novel | 2014 |
| 3. | Everything the light touches : a novel | 2022 |
| 4. | We come from Mist : Writings from Meghalaya | 2023 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The First Firangis : Remarkable Stories of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans and Other Foreigners who Became Indian | 2015 |
| 2 | Shakespeare and Literary Theory | 2012 |
| 3 | The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 11 | 2011 |
| 4 | Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare | 2009 |
| 5 | Masala Shakespeare : How a Firangi Writer Became Indian | 2018 |
| 6 | Indography Writing the Indian in early modern England | 2014 |
| 7 | Foreign Bodies and the Body Politics : Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England | 1998 |
| 8 | Sick economies : drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England | 2004 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Inclusive pedagogies: teaching and learning practices in higher education in India | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakesqueer : A Queer Companion to the Complete Works Of Shakespeare | 2011 |
| 2 | Indifference to Difference : On Queer Universalism | 2015 |
| 3 | Wanton Words : Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama | 2004 |
| 4 | Unhistorical Shakespeare : Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film | 2008 |
| 5 | Infinite Variety : A History of Desire in India | 2018 |
| 6 | The Law of desire : rulings on sex and sexuality in India | 2021 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | India’s Wildlife History An Introduction | 2008 |
| 2 | Shifting Ground People, Animals and Mobility in India’s Environmental History | 2014 |
| 3 | Selected works of C. Rajagopalachari | 2014 |
| 5 | Nature Without Borders | 2014 |
| 6 | India’s Environmental History From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period | 2013 |
| 7 | India’s Environmental History Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation | 2015 |
| 8 | Nature and Nation : Essays on Environmental History | 2014 |
| 9 | Selected works of C. Rajagopalachari : 1923 -25 | 2014 |
| 10 | Selected works of C. Rajagopalachari : 1921 – 22 | 2014 |
| 11 | Selected works of C. Rajagopalachari : 1907 -21 | 2014 |
| 12 | Environmental Issues in India : A Reader | 2007 |
| 13 | Environmental History : As if Nature Existed | 2010 |
| 14 | Making Conservation Work : Securing Biodiversity in This New Century | 2007 |
| 15 | At Nature’s Edge : The Global Present and Long Term History | 2018 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art Attacks : Violence and Offence-Taking in India | 2019 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slow Disaster : political ecology of hazards and everyday life in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam | 2023 |
| Sr. No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Caste and nature :Dalits and Indian environmental politics | 2017 |
| 2. | Green and saffron: Hindu nationalism and Indian environmental politics | 2012 |
| 3. | Landscapes and lives :environmental dispatches on rural India | 2001 |
| 4. | Contested Coastlines : Fisherfolk, Nations And Borders In South Asia | 2008 |
| 5. | Unquiet worlds : Dalit voices and visions | 2004 |
| 6. | Green and Saffron: the RSS, Modi, and Indian Environmental politics | 2024 |
| 7. | Dalit Ecologies: caste and environment justice | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bound Together : How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization | 2007 |
| 2 | Brother Enemy : War after War | 1986 |
| 3 | Destini comuni : La globalizzazione di guerrieri, commercianti, predicatori e avventurieri | 2009 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization | 2011 |
| 2. | Ancient India New Research | 2014 |
| 3. | Ashoka in Ancient India | 2015 |
| 4. | Finding Forgotten Cities : How the Indus Civilization was Discovered | 2015 |
| 5. | Buddhism in Asia : Revival and Reinvention | 2016 |
| 6. | Marshalling the Past : Ancient India and its Modern Histories | 2015 |
| 7. | Monuments Matter : India’s Archaeological Heritage Since Independence | 2017 |
| 8. | Pre-Ahom Assam : Studies in the Inscriptions of Assam Between the Fifth and the Thirteenth Centuries AD | 1991 |
| 9. | Copper and its Alloys in Ancient India | 1996 |
| 10. | Time Pieces : A Whistle Stop Tour of Ancient India | 2018 |
| 11. | Searching for Ashoka : questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand | 2022 |
| 12. | The Archaeology of Indian trade routes up to c. 200 BC : resources use, resource access and lines of communication | 1992 |
| 13. | Archaeology and the public purpose : writings on and by M.N. Deshpande | 2021 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Animosity at Bay : An alternative history of the India – Pakistan relationships, 1947 – 1952 | 2020 |
| S.No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Oxford Companion to Politics in India | 2014 |
| 2 | Shaping the Emerging World : India and the Multilateral Order | 2013 |
| 3 | Public Institutions in India : Performance and Design | 2007 |
| 4 | The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution | 2016 |
| 5 | Rethinking Public Institutions in India | 2017 |
| 6 | Nonalignment 2.0 : A Foreign & Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century | 2014 |
| 7 | The Burden of Democracy | 2003 |
| 8 | Navigating the Labyrinth : Perspectives on India’s Higher Education | 2017 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Climate of Conquest: War, Environment and Empire in Mughal North India | 2019 |
| 2 | The Early modern in South Asia : querying modernity, periodization, and history | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leapfrog : Six Practices to Thrive | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Brown skins, white coats : race science in India, 1920-66 | 2022 |
| 2. | Doctoring traditions : ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences | 2016 |
| 3. | Nationalizing the Body : The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine | 2012 |
| 4. | Medical Marginality in South Asia: situating subaltern therapeutics | 2012 |
| 5. | Football : from England to the world | 2009 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Padmavat : An Epic Love story | 2018 |
| 2 | Who is Bharat Mata?: On History, Culture and the idea of time | 2019 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Post Colonial Reason and its Critique : Deliberations on Gayatri Vhakrabarti Spivak’s Thoughts | 2014 |
| 2 | History of Indian Philosophy | 2018 |
| 3 | Emotions in Indian Thought Systems | 2019 |
| 4 | Horizons of the Self in Hindu Thought : A Study for the Perplexed | 2016 |
| 5 | Sabdapramana : Word and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy | 2008 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matrix Analysis | 2013 |
| 2 | Connected at Infinity II : A Selection of Mathematics by Indians | 2013 |
| 3 | Notes on Functional Analysis | 2015 |
| 4 | Positive Definite Matrices | 2007 |
| 5 | Fourier Series | 2010 |
| 6 | Perturbation Bounds for Matrix Eigenvalues | 2007 |
| 7 | Collected papers of S.R.S. Varadhan | 2012 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Rule of the commoner : DMK and the formations of the political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Burden of Refuge : Partition Experiences of the Sindhis of Gujarat | 2009 |
| 2 | Memories and movements : Borders and communities in Banni Kutch, Gujrat | 2013 |
| 3 | Chutnefying English : The phenomenon of English | 2011 |
| 4 | Unbordered Memories : Sindhi Stories of Partition | 2009 |
| 5 | Fence | 2015 |
| 6 | The Glory of Patan | 2017 |
| 7 | The Stepchild : Angaliyat | 2012 |
| 8 | Translating India | 2006 |
| 9 | A Multilingual Nation : Translation and language Dynamic in India | 2018 |
| 10 | Speech and silence : literary journeys by Gujarati women | 2006 |
| 11 | The Lord and master of Gujrat | 2018 |
| 12 | Agnipariksha : An Ordeal remembered | 2018 |
| 13 | Decentering Translation Studies : India and Beyond | 2009 |
| 14 | The King of Kings | 2009 |
| 15 | Uneasy translations : self, experience and Indian literature | 2022 |
| 16 | The Greatest Gujarati stories ever told | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Speeches of Modern India | 2014 |
| 2 | Dateline 1857 Revolt Against the Raj | 2008 |
| 3 | Penguin Gandhi Reader | 2014 |
| 4 | Nehru and Bose : Parallel Lives | 2014 |
| 5 | Awadh in Revolt 1857 – 1858 : A Study of Popular Resistance | 2008 |
| 6 | The Year of Blood Essays on the Revolt of 1857 | 2014 |
| 7 | India Then and Now | 2012 |
| 8 | Spectre of Violence : the 1857 Kanpur Massacres | 1998 |
| 9 | Indian Persuasions : 50 Years of Seminar, Selected Writings | 2009 |
| 10 | Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean world : Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta | 2010 |
| 11 | Remembered Childhood : Essays in Honour of André Béteille | 2018 |
| 12 | Twilight Falls on Liberalism | 2019 |
| 13 | Changing India, Vol. V, Part I : The Prime minister Speaks | 2019 |
| 14 | Changing India, Vol. V, Part II : The Prime minister Speaks | 2019 |
| 15 | Jawaharlal Nehru : Oxford India Short Introduction | 2019 |
| 16 | Tagore and Gandhi : Walking Alone, Walking Together | 2021 |
| 17 | A New History of India : From its Origins to the Twenty-First century | 2023 |
| 18 | A Begum and a Rani : Hazrat mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 | 2021 |
| 19 | The Best of Tagore | 2023 |
| 20 | Century of trust : The story of Tata steel | 2008 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Firebird | 2015 |
| 2. | Prose of the World : Modernism and the Banality of Empire | 2013 |
| 3. | College : Pathways of Possibility | 2018 |
| 4. | Play House | 2017 |
| 5. | The Scent of God | 2019 |
| 6. | The Critic as Amateur | 2020 |
| 7. | The Middle Finger | 2022 |
| 8. | The Remains of Body | 2024 |
| 9. | Silverfish | 2007 |
| Sr. No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Design and Analysis of Algorithms: a contemporary perspective | 2019 |
| S.No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sovereigns of the sea : Omani ambition in the age of empire | 2023 |
| 2. | Muslim cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire | 2015 |
| 3. | Islam and Healing Loss and Recovery of an Indo - Muslim Medical Tradition 1600 - 1900 | 2008 |
| 4. | A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the Ijaz-i Arsalani (Persian letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier | 2007 |
| 5. | Eighteenth Century in India | 2002 |
| 6. | The Sepoys and the company : tradition and transition in northern India 1770-1830 | 1995 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | India and Asian geopolitics : the past, present | 2021 |
| 2 | Choices : inside the making of India's foreign policy | 2016 |
| S.No. | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Youth and Political violence in India : A Social psychological account of conflict experiences from the Kashmir valley | 2020 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years | 2010 |
| 2 | Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats | 2019 |
| 3 | 1971 : A Global History of the Creation of a Bangladesh | 2015 |
| 4 | India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939 -1945 | 2017 |
| 5 | Nonalignment 2.0 : A Foreign & Strategic Policy for India In the 21st Century | 2014 |
| 6 | The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy | 2015 |
| 7 | The Most Dangerous Place : A History of the United States in South Asia | 2018 |
| 8 | Fierce Enigmas : a History of the United States in South Asia | 2018 |
| 9 | A Functioning Anarchy? : Essays for Ramchandra Guha | 2021 |
| 10 | The Fourth Lion : Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi | 2021 |
| 11 | Ancient India : Culture of Contradictions | 2021 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | How I Became a tree | 2017 |
| 2. | Animalia Indica: The Finest Animal Stories in Indian Literature | 2019 |
| 3. | Missing : a novel | 2018 |
| 4. | Out of syllabus : poems | 2019 |
| 5. | My mother's lover and other stories | 2020 |
| 6. | V.I.P.: very important plant | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imagined Geographies in the Indo – Tibetan Borderlands : Culture, Politics, Place | 2020 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ancient Delhi | 2014 |
| 2. | History of Ancient and Early Medieval India From the Stone Age to the 12th Century | 2018 |
| 3. | The Discovery of Ancient India Early Archaeologists and Beginnings of Archaeology | 2004 |
| 4. | Asian Encounters Exploring Connected Histories | 2014 |
| 5. | Ancient India New research | 2014 |
| 6. | Delhi Ancient History Readings in History | 2006 |
| 7. | The Idea of Ancient India : Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology | 2016 |
| 8. | Buddhism in Asia : Revival and Reinvention | 2016 |
| 9. | Political Violence in Ancient India | 2017 |
| 10. | The World of India's first Archaeologist : letters from Alexander Cunningham to J.D.M. Beglar | 2021 |
| 11. | Ancient India : Culture and Contradictions | |
| 12. | दिल्ली: प्राचीन इतिहास | 2023 |
| 13. | A History of ancient and early Medieval India : From the stone age to the 12th Century ( 2nd Ed.) | 2024 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transgressions | 2014 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half Lion : How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India | 2016 |
| 2 | Jugalbandi | 2020 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Tale of the Horse : A History of India On Horseback | 2021 |
