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Journal Articles
1983. ‘On the Status of Marx’s Writings on India’. Social Scientist 11 (9): 26–44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3516993
1984. ‘On the Crisis of Political Institutions in India’. Contributions to Indian Sociology 18 (2): 223–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996678401800205.
1986. ‘Indira Gandhi and Indian Politics’. Economic and Political Weekly 21 (38–39): 1697–1708. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4376158
1988. “A Critique of the Passive Revolution.” Economic and Political Weekly 23 (48): 7–8.
1994. ‘Crisis of the Nation-State in India’. Political Studies 42 (1_suppl): 115–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1994.tb00008.x.
1997a. ‘Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta’. Public Culture 10 (1): 83–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-83.
1997b. ‘The General Elections in India’. Government and Opposition 32 (1): 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb01206.x.
2000a. ‘Modernity and Politics in India’. Daedalus 129 (1): 137–62. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2000%20Modernity%20and%20politics%20Daedalus%20(1).pdf
2000b. ‘Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature’. Modern Asian Studies 34 (2): 379–406. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00003334.
2005a. ‘An Outline of a Revisionist Theory of Modernity’. European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 46 (3): 497–526. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975605000196.
2005b. ‘The Sudden Death of Sanskrit Knowledge’. Journal of Indian Philosophy 33 (1): 119–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23497195
2005c. ‘On the Enchantment of the State: Indian Thought on the Role of the State in the Narrative of Modernity’. European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 46 (2): 263–96. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975605000093.
2014a. ‘The Curious Persistence of Colonial Ideology’. Constellations 21 (2): 186–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12092.
2014b. ‘A Strange Love of the Land: Identity, Poetry and Politics in the (Un)Making of South Asia’. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, no. 10 (December). https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.3756.
with Garrick Cooper, Charles W. Mills, and Sor-hoon Tan. 2017. ‘Responses to James Tully’s “Deparochializing Political Theory and Beyond”’. Journal of World Philosophies 2 (1). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/929.
2018a. ‘Marx and Postcolonial Thinking’. Constellations 25 (1): 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12354.
2018b. ‘Contradictions of Conservatism’. Studies in Indian Politics 6 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2321023018762661.
2021. ‘Where Is the Breughel Village? Community and the Radical Tradition’. Philosophy & Social Criticism 47 (4): 408–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211008570.
2021. “Can Nāstikas Taste Āstika Poetry? Tagore’s Poetry and the Critique of Secularity.” Sophia 60, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 677–97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00869-x.
2023a. “Can a Constitution Defend Itself?” Global Intellectual History 8 (1): 78–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2021.1962580.
2023b. “What Is Western About Western Thought?” Sophia (Parkville, Netherlands) 62 (3): 485–514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-023-00963-2.
Book Chapters
Kaviraj, Sudipta. 1976. ‘The Self-Falsifying Prophecy’. In The Political Miscellany: Essays in Memory of Professor Ramesh Chandra Ghosh, edited by Amal K. Mukhopadhyay, 15–22. Calcutta: K P Bagchi and Company. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/1976%20Kaviraj%20self%20falsifying%20prophecy.pdf
1986. ‘The Heteronomous Radicalism of M. N. Roy’. In Political Thought in Modern India, edited by Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L. Deutsch, 209–35. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/1983%20Kaviraj%20heteronomous%20radicalism.pdf
1989. ‘On Political Explanation in Marxism’. In Perspectives on Capitalism, edited by Sudipta Kaviraj and Krishna Bharadwaj, 132–74. New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
1991. ‘On State, Society and Discourse in India’. In Rethinking Third World Politics, edited by James Manor, 72–99. London: Longman. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/1991%20State,%20society%20and%20discourse.pdf
1992a. ‘Marxism and the Darkness of History’. In Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern, edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 79–102. London: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1992.tb00457.x
1992b. ‘The Imaginary Institution of India’. In Subaltern Studies VII, edited by Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey, 1–39. Delhi: Oxford University Press. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/1992%20imaginary%20institution.pdf
1995a. ‘Democracy and Development in India’. In Democracy and Development, edited by Ameya Kumar Bagchi, 92–130. International Economic Association Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24076-0.
1995b. ‘The Reversal of Orientalism: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the Project of Indigenist Social Theory’. In Representing Hinduism: THe Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity, edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron, 253–79. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/1994%20Bhudev.pdf
2002. ‘Ideas of Freedom in Modern India’. In The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa, edited by Robert H. Taylor, 97–142. Stanford: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804779944-008
2009a. ‘Marxism in Translation: Critical Reflections on Indian Radical Thought’. In Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn, edited by Raymond Geuss and Richard Bourke, 172–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605468.007.
2009b. ‘Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the Historical Formation of Identities in India’. In Language and Politics in India, edited by Asha Sarangi, 312–50. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kavi15222.7
2010. ‘On Thick and Thin Religion: Some Critical Reflections on Secularization Theory’. In Religion and the Political Imagination, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman-Jones, 336–55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wcuNTq0A30ani9xLm7_Ch_9Tf4LiuV2D/view?usp=sharing
2012a. ‘On the Historicity of “the Political”: Rajaniti and Politics in Modern Indian Thought’. In Comparative Political Thought, edited by Michael Freeden and Andrew Vincent. Routledge. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1baR5LHShprLM5ycIqnob2RbgmGwzHKMl/view?usp=sharing
2012b. ‘The Empire of Democracy: Reading Indian Politics through Tocqueville’. In Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States, edited by Ira Katznelson and Partha Chatterjee. Oxford: Oxford University Press. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2010%20Kaviraj%20Thick%20and%20thin%20religion.pdf
2013a. ‘Global Intellectual History’. In Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, 295–319. New York: Columbia University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/moyn16048.16
2013b. ‘Modernity, State, and Toleration in Indian History’. In Boundaries of Toleration, edited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor. New York: Columbia University Press. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2013%20Kaviraj%20Modernity%20state%20and%20toleration.pdf
2015. ‘Democracy and the Power of Religion: Some Lessons from India’. In Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law, edited by Mark Hill and Robin Griffith-Jones, 215–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316178164.013.
2016a. ‘Disenchantment Deferred’. In Beyond the Secular West, edited by Akeel Bilgrami, 135–87. Religion, Culture, and Public Life. New York: Columbia University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/bilg17080.10
2016b. ‘The Perfume from the Past: Modern Reflections on Ancient Art’. In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti, 167–94. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474219006.
2018a. ‘Languages of Secularity’. In Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia, edited by Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar, 22–49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582834.002.
2018b. ‘Tagore’s Readings of the Mahabharata’. In Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma, edited by Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya, and Gangeya Mukherji, 197–213. New Delhi: Routledge. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2018%20Tagore’s%20readings%20of%20MB%20(1).pdf
With Ahmed, Hilal. 2018. ‘Indian Democracy and the World’s Largest Muslim Minority’. In Democratic Transition in the Muslim World: A Global Perspective, edited by Alfred Stepan, 201–26. New York: Columbia University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/step18430.14
2020. ‘Democracy and the “Non-Nation-State”’. In Thinking Democracy Now: Between Innovation and Regression, edited by Nadia Urbinati, 251-267. Milano: Feltrinelli. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2020%20Democracy%20and%20the%20Non-Nation%20State.pdf
2021. ‘Plurality and Pluralism: Democracy, Religious Difference, and Political Imagination’. In Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey, edited by Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Vatsal Naresh, 221–48. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530016.003.0011,
2023a. “Languages of Secularity.” In Secularism in Comparative Perspective: Religions Across Political Contexts, edited by Jonathan Laurence. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7_3.
2023b. “Linguistic Estrangement: When Is a Language My Own?” In Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia. Routledge India. file:///Users/lucia/Downloads/2023%20Linguistic%20estrangement.pdf
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