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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | An Enquiry into the nature of Liberation : Bhatta Ramakantha’s | 2013 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | English women’s spiritual utopias, 1400-1700 : new kingdoms of womanhood | 2022 |
| 2 | Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe: contemporary theological explorations in mysticism | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 9. | Waterscapes: the cultural politics of a natural resource | 2007 |
| 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 | Realisms Interlinked : Objects, Subjects, and other Subjects | 2019 |
| 2 | Denying Existence : The logis, Epistemology and pragmatics of negative existentials and fictional discourse | 1997 |
| 3 | Engaged emancipation : Mind, Morals, and make – Believe in the Moksopaya( Yofavasistha) | 2017 |
| 4 | The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art | 2022 |
| 5 | Knowing from words : Western and Indian philosophical analysis of understanding and Testimony | 1994 |
| 6 | Universals, Concepts and Qualities : New essays on the meaning of Predicates | 2006 |
| 7 | Comparative Philosophy without Borders | 2016 |
| 8 | Apoha : Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition | 2011 |
| Sr.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Penguin book of Bengali Short stories | 2024 |
| 2 | Carnival : A Novel | 2024 |
| 3 | Dear Reader : A Writer’s memoir | 2023 |
| 4 | Hospital | 2023 |
| 5 | Mamata Beyound 2021 | 2022 |
| 6 | Khwabnama | 2021 |
| 7 | The Sickle | 2021 |
| 8 | An educated woman in Prostitution : A memoir of lust, exploitation, deceit | 2021 |
| 9 | Imaan | 2021 |
| 10 | The Endgame | 2020 |
| 11 | Shameless | 2020 |
| 12 | A Ballad of Remittent Fever | 2020 |
| 13 | The Yogini | 2019 |
| 14 | The Moving Shadow : Electrifying Bengali Pulp fiction | 2018 |
| 15 | Shake the bottle and other stories | 2018 |
| 16 | I remember Abbu | 2018 |
| 17 | There’s gunpowder in the air | 2018 |
| 18 | Right arm over | 2018 |
| 19 | On a truck alone to McMahon | 2018 |
| 20 | Very close to pleasure there’s a sick cat and other poems | 2018 |
| 21 | Mushtaq Hussain’s Darbari | 2018 |
| 22 | The Boat – Wreck | 2017 |
| 23 | The aunt who wouldn’t die | 2017 |
| 24 | The greatest Bengali stories ever told | 2016 |
| 25 | Things that happen and other poems | 2016 |
| 26 | Rasha : Little girl, Big heart | 2016 |
| 27 | Letters of Blood | 2016 |
| 28 | Tiger Woman : A Novel | 2016 |
| 29 | A Morrored Life : The Rumi Novel | 2015 |
| 30 | Seven Heavens | 2015 |
| 31 | Panty | 2015 |
| 32 | The Fifth Man | 2014 |
| 33 | The magic moonlight flower and other enchanting stories | 2014 |
| 34 | The master and I : Soumitra and I | 2014 |
| 35 | Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st Century reader | 2014 |
| 36 | The Love letter and other stories | 2014 |
| 37 | You are Neera | 2014 |
| 38 | Abandon | 2013 |
| 39 | Kalabati : The showstopper | 2013 |
| 40 | The Rhythm of riddles : Three Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries | 2012 |
| 41 | Dozakhnama : Conversations in hell | 2012 |
| 42 | When the time is Right | 2011 |
| 43 | Fever | 2011 |
| 44 | What really happened : Stories | 2010 |
| 45 | The Chieftain’s daughter | 2010 |
| 46 | My Kind of Girl | 2010 |
| 47 | Illicit | 2010 |
| 48 | Three Women | 2010 |
| 49 | By the Tungabhadra | 2010 |
| 50 | There was no one at the Bus stop | 2010 |
| 51 | The Middleman | 2009 |
| 52 | Chowringhee | 2007 |
| 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. | Agents of inertia: business, urban crisis, and economic decline in twentieth-century Calcutta | 2026 |
| 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 |
| 10 | The Undying light: a personal history of independent India | 2025 |
| 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 |
| 5. | Boats on Land: a collection of short stories | 2017 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The girl from Fergana: secrets of my mother’s Chinese tea chest | 2026 |
| 2 | The First Firangis : Remarkable Stories of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans and Other Foreigners who Became Indian | 2015 |
| 3 | Shakespeare and Literary Theory | 2012 |
| 4 | The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 11 | 2011 |
| 5 | Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare | 2009 |
| 6 | Masala Shakespeare : How a Firangi Writer Became Indian | 2018 |
| 7 | Indography Writing the Indian in early modern England | 2014 |
| 8 | Foreign Bodies and the Body Politics : Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England | 1998 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 2. | The story of a sikh museum : heritage, politics, popular culture | 2025 |
| 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 | Nature contested : ecology, society, and environment in contemporary India | 2026 |
| 2 | India’s Forests: revisiting nature and history | 2026 |
| 3 | India’s Wildlife History An Introduction | 2008 |
| 4 | Shifting Ground People, Animals and Mobility in India’s Environmental History | 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 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Nisvasamukhatattvasamhita: A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Saiva Tantra | 2020 |
| 2 | Panditarajasataka: an anthology of poems ascribed to Panditaraja Jagannatha | 2024 |
| 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 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 |
| 3 | The coveted mount: the horse in south Asian history | 2026 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2. | Dravidianism: essays on conceptual genealogies and political outcomes | 2026 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: the challenge for India | 2010 |
| 2 | 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence | 2013 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ittehad : A Life together | 2025 |
| 2 | The Burden of Refuge : Partition Experiences of the Sindhis of Gujarat | 2009 |
| 3 | Memories and movements : Borders and communities in Banni Kutch, Gujrat | 2013 |
| 4 | Chutnefying English : The phenomenon of English | 2011 |
| 5 | Unbordered Memories : Sindhi Stories of Partition | 2009 |
| 6 | Fence | 2015 |
| 7 | The Glory of Patan | 2017 |
| 8 | The Stepchild : Angaliyat | 2012 |
| 9 | Translating India | 2006 |
| 10 | A Multilingual Nation : Translation and language Dynamic in India | 2018 |
| 11 | Speech and silence : literary journeys by Gujarati women | 2006 |
| 12 | The Lord and master of Gujrat | 2018 |
| 13 | Agnipariksha : An Ordeal remembered | 2018 |
| 14 | Decentering Translation Studies : India and Beyond | 2009 |
| 15 | The King of Kings | 2009 |
| 16 | Uneasy translations : self, experience and Indian literature | 2022 |
| 17 | The Greatest Gujarati stories ever told | 2022 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Touch of Genius: the wisdom of India’s Nobel Laureates | 2026 |
| 2 | Song of India : A Study of National Anthem | 2025 |
| 3 | Great Speeches of Modern India | 2014 |
| 4 | Dateline 1857 Revolt Against the Raj | 2008 |
| 5 | Penguin Gandhi Reader | 2014 |
| 6 | Nehru and Bose : Parallel Lives | 2014 |
| 7 | Awadh in Revolt 1857 – 1858 : A Study of Popular Resistance | 2008 |
| 8 | The Year of Blood Essays on the Revolt of 1857 | 2014 |
| 9 | India Then and Now | 2012 |
| 10 | Spectre of Violence : the 1857 Kanpur Massacres | 1998 |
| 11 | Indian Persuasions : 50 Years of Seminar, Selected Writings | 2009 |
| 12 | Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean world : Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta | 2010 |
| 13 | Remembered Childhood : Essays in Honour of André Béteille | 2018 |
| 14 | Twilight Falls on Liberalism | 2019 |
| 15 | Changing India, Vol. V, Part I : The Prime minister Speaks | 2019 |
| 16 | Changing India, Vol. V, Part II : The Prime minister Speaks | 2019 |
| 17 | Jawaharlal Nehru : Oxford India Short Introduction | 2019 |
| 18 | Tagore and Gandhi : Walking Alone, Walking Together | 2021 |
| 19 | A New History of India : From its Origins to the Twenty-First century | 2023 |
| 20 | A Begum and a Rani : Hazrat mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 | 2021 |
| 21 | The Best of Tagore | 2023 |
| 22 | Century of trust : The story of Tata steel | 2008 |
| S.No. | Title | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open intelligence : education between art and artificial | 2026 |
| 2 | The Amateur: self-Making and the Humanities in Postcolony | 2024 |
| 3 | Firebird | 2015 |
| 4 | Prose of the World : Modernism and the Banality of Empire | 2013 |
| 5 | College : Pathways of Possibility | 2018 |
| 6 | Play House | 2017 |
| 7 | The Scent of God | 2019 |
| 8 | The Critic as Amateur | 2020 |
| 9 | The Middle Finger | 2022 |
| 10 | The Remains of Body | 2024 |
| 11 | 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 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 |
| Provincials: postcards from the peripheries | 2024 | |
| Plant thinkers of twentieth-century Bengal | 2024 |
| 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 |
