Amrita Basu

• Basu, Amrita. "Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India" (Cambridge University Press, Contentious Politics

Series, 2015)

• Basu, Amrita. Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India. University of California Press and Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 1992
• Basu, Amrita, ed, The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995 and New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998
• Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Community Conflicts and the State in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997
• Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. New York: Routledge and New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998
• Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World. Syracuse University Press, 2002
• Basu, Amrita, co-ed, Beyond Exceptionalism: Violence, Religion and Democracy in India. Seagull Press: New Delhi and London, 2006
• Basu, Amrita, ed, Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms. Westview Press: Boulder, CO, 2010.[7][4]

• “More than Meets the Eye: Sub-Rosa Violence in Hindu Nationalist India,” in Karen Barkey and Sudipto Kaviraj ed, Democracy and Religious Pluralism, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• Commentary on “The Systematic Study of Women’s Movements in Western Democracies and the Difference It Makes” Politics, Groups and Identities, (Vol. 4, Issue 4, 2016)
• “Women, dynasties and democracy in India,” in Kanchan Chandra ed., Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• “The Long March from Ayodhya to Godhra: Civil Society and the State in Service of "Hindutva,” in Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum ed., Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right, (New York; Oxford University Press, 2015) 2
• Co-Authored with Atul Kohli, chapter on India, in Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger and William Joseph eds., Introduction To Comparative Politics, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003, 2008, 2011, 2014, forthcoming 2017)
• “Who Secures Women’s Capabilities in Martha Nussbaum’s Quest for Social Justice? “ Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2010) [Reprinted in Thomas Bloom, ed.,Justice and the Capabilities Approach, (Ashgate, 2010]
• “Gender and Politics,” Oxford Companion to Politics in India, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)
• “As the Empire Falls: Lessons Learned and Unlearned in America’s Asia,” Critical Asian Studies,41:3, 2009
• “Women, Political Parties and Social Movements in South Asia,” in Anne Marie Goetz ed., Governing Women: Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform, (NY: Routledge, 2009)
• “Commentary on Transnational Feminism,” Feminist Africa, Issue 5, 2005
• “Women, Political Parties and Social Movements in South Asia,” Occasional Paper No. 5, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, July 2005
• Co-authored, “Prose After Gujarat: Violence, Secularism and Democracy in India,” in Mushirul Hasan ed., Will Secular India Survive? (New Delhi: Imprint One, 2004)
• “The Europeanization of American Racism or a New Racial Hybrid? Souls, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1 May 2002 [Reprinted in Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard Jones Ed, Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2008]
• “Globalizing Local Women’s Movements”, in Basu et al, Localizing Knowledge In a Globalizing World (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
• “Parliamentary Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon, The CPM in West Bengal,” in Zoya Hasan ed., Parties and Party Politics in India, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002)
• “Counterpoints: Roundtable on Peace,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2001)
• “The Dialectics of Hindu Nationalism,” in Atul Kohli ed., The Success of India’sDemocracy, (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• “Globalization of the Local/Localization of the Global: Mapping Transnational Women’s Movements,
• ” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. (Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 2000) “Best Books in Political Science and Women’s Studies,” Women’s Review of Books, Millennial Issue, 2000
• “Communalism Engendered: Men as Victims, Women as Agents,” in Julia Leslie ed., InventedIdentities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• “Of Men, Women and Bombs: India’s Nuclear Explosions,” Dissent, (Vol. 46, No. 1, Winter 1999)
• “Rethinking Communalism and Fundamentalism: Women’s Activism and Religious Politics in India,
• ” Special Issue on Women and 20th Century Religion, Journal of Women’s History, (Vol. 10, No. 4, Winter 1999)
• “The Changing Fortunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party,” in Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh edited,Handbook of Indian Politics, (Routledge, 2012)
• “Rethinking Social Movements/Rethinking Hindu Nationalism,” in John Zavos et al. edited,Public Hinduism, (Sage Publications, 2012)
• “Introduction,” in Jeffery and Basu eds., Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia (NY: Routledge 1997, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998)
• “Hindu Women’s Activism and the Questions that it Raises,” in Jeffery and Basu eds.,Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia (NY: Routledge 1997, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998) (Reprinted in Betsy Reed ed.,Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror, (NY: Thunder Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002)
• “Reflections on Community Conflicts and the State in India,” Journal of Asian Studies,(Vol. 56, No. 2, May 1997)
• “Mass Movement or Elite Conspiracy? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism,” in David Ludden, ed., Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community and the Politics of Democracy in India (The University of Pennsylvania Press, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• “When The Center Does Not Hold: Hindu Nationalism and State Decay,” Harvard International Review, (Vol. 2, Summer 1996)
• “The Gendered Imagery and Women’s Leadership of Hindu Nationalism,” Reproductive Health Matters, (No. 8, November 1996)
• “Why Local Riots Are Not Simply Local: Collective Violence and The State in Bijnor, India 1988-1993,” Theory and Society (Vol. 24, 1995)
• “Introduction,” in Basu ed., The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements In Global Perspective, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995)
• “When Local Riots Are Not Merely Local, Bringing the State Back In: Bijnor, 1988-1992,”Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay, Vol. XXIX, No. 40, October 1, 1994) [Reprinted in Rajeev Bhargav and Partha Chatterjee eds., Politics In India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997)]
• “Bhopal Revisited: The View From Below,” The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Vol. 26, Nos. 1 & 2, January - June 1994: 3-14) [Reprinted in Bridget Hanna , Ward Morehouse, and Satnath Sarangi, The Bhopal Reader, Twenty Years of the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster, (NY: The Apex Press, 2006)]
• “Feminism Inverted: The Gendered Imagery and Real Women of Hindu Nationalism,” The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Vol. 25, No. 4, 1993) [Reprinted in Urvashi Butalia and Tanika Sarkar eds., Women and The Hindu Right, (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1995)]
• “The State and Agrarian Transformation in India,” Comparative Politics, (Vol. 22, No. 4, 1990: 483-500)
• “Indigenous Feminism, Tribal Radicalism and Grass Roots Mobilization in India,” Dialectical Anthropology, (Vol. 15, Nos. 2 & 3, 1990: 193-209)
• “Democratic Centralism in The Home and The World: Women and The Communist Party in West Bengal,” Sonia Kruks, Rayna Rapp and Marilyn Young, eds., Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1989).
• “Grass Roots Movements and The State: Reflections on Radical Change in India,” Theory & Society, (Vol. 16, 1987: 647-674).
• “Complexities of Theory and Practice: The Women’s Movement in India,” The Barnard Occasional Papers on Women’s Issues, (Vol. 2, No. 3, 1987) 4
• “Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards: The Non-Governmental Women’s Forum in Nairobi,”Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 1986)
• “Class, Communalism and Official Complicity: India After Indira” (co-authored), Monthly Review,(Vol. 36, No. 8, January 1985)
• “Studies in Power and Powerlessness: Women in Contemporary India,” Trends in History, (Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 1985)
• “Two Faces of Protest: Alternative Forms of Women’s Mobilization in Bengal and Maharashtra,” in Gail Minault, ed., The Extended Family: Women’s Political Participation in South Asia,(Columbia, Missouri: South Asia Books, 1981).[7][4]

• With Austin Sarat, “Political Science as a Liberal Arts Subject,” Polity (Vol. 46, 81-84, January 2014)
• With Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan and Liisa Mallki, special issue on Gender and Globalization,Signs, (Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 2001)
• With Paula Giddings, Inderpal Grewal and Kamala Visveshvaran eds., “September 11th: A Feminist Archive,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002)
• With Atul Kohli, special issue, “Community Conflicts and the State in India,” in The Journal of Asian Studies, (Vol. 56, No. 2, May 1997)
• With “Women and Religious Nationalism,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, (Vol. 25, # 4, 1993).[7][4]