BOOK: Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)
Some Reviews:
* Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
* Comparative Studies in Society and History
Extracts:
Chapter 2 – Nationalism, Recognition, and Family-Formation
TEXT OF INVITED PUBLIC LECTURE:
“The Political Formation of Cultures: South Asian and other Experiences”, text of Sixth Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Millennium Lecture, delivered at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, organized by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 29, 2005.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
On Nationalism, Recognition and Personal Law:
- “Legal Change and Gender Inequality: Changes in Muslim Family Law in India”, Law and Social Inquiry 33.3 (Summer 2008): 631-672
- “Making Family and Nation: Hindu Marriage Law in India”, Journal of Asian Studies 69.3 (August 2010): 771-798.
- “Myths of the Nation, Cultural Recognition, and Personal Law in India” in Gerard Bouchard, ed., Whither National Myths? Reflections on the Present and Future of National Myths (New York: Routledge: 2013): 259-275.
On Ethnic Movements, Tolerance and Democracy:
- “Ethnicity and Pluralism: An Exploration with Reference to Indian Cases”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 32, December 1999, p. 715-745
- “Identity Politics and Social Pluralism”, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 40:3, November 2002, p. 125-139
