Works (46)
2024 entry reference
The Indus River
2022 chapter book
Voting and the Visual: Electoral Symbols, Legal Discourse, and the Sovereign People
Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India.
2020 book review
Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared.
[Review of Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared, by P. Duara & E. J. Perry]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 79(4), 1076–1077.
2019 chapter book
Introduction
2019 book
2019 chapter book
Time and the Sovereignty of the People
2019 chapter book
Voting, Religion, and the People’s Sovereignty in Late Colonial India
2017 journal article
4. IMPERIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN MUGHAL AND BRITISH FORMS
HISTORY AND THEORY, 56(1), 80–88.

2017 journal article
Nationalism, Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism - and Empire
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 37(2), 185–189.
2016 book review
The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956
[Review of The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956, by J. Slight]. JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 58(4), 769–770.
2015 journal article
Rethinking the Public through the Lens of Sovereignty
SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 38(3), 371–386.

2015 journal article
The Historiography of India's Partition: Between Civilization and Modernity
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 74(1), 23–41.
2015 book review
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics. By Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 435 pp. $35.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780674052895).
[Review of The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, by A. Jalal]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 74(4), 1056–1057.
2014 chapter book
The paradox of patronage and the people’s sovereignty
2013 book
2012 chapter book
Environmental History, Biradari, and the Making of Pakistani Punjab
2012 journal article
Introduction to “Election Law in India”
Introduction to “Election Law in India.” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 11(2), 136–148.
2012 book review
Nile Green . Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915 . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xvi, 327. $90.00.
[Review of Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915, by N. Green]. The American Historical Review, 117(2), 508–509.

2012 journal article
Towards a Global History of Voting: Sovereignty, the Diffusion of Ideas, and the Enchanted Individual
Religions, 3(2), 407–423.
2011 book review
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
[Review of Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, by A. Albinia]. HISTORIAN, 73(4), 857–858.
2011 journal article
Secularism and the State in Pakistan introduction
Modern Asian Studies, 45(3), 491–499.

2010 chapter
31. Muslim League Appeals to the Voters of Punjab for Support of Pakistan
2010 journal article
Rule of Law, Rule of Life: Caste, Democracy, and the Courts in India
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 115(2), 406–427.

2009 book review
Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law.
[Review of Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law, by P. Robb]. HISTORIAN, 71(1), 142–144.
2009 journal article
Expanding frontiers in South Asian and world history essays in honour of John F Richards: Introduction
Modern Asian Studies, 43(1), 1–3.
2009 journal article
One day's sultan: TN Seshan and Indian democracy
CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDIAN SOCIOLOGY, 43(2), 247–284.

2009 journal article
State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the "Rule of Law" in China and India
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 68(1), 55–100.

2003 journal article
Cattle, crime and colonialism: Property as negotiation in north India
INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 40(1), 33–56.

2002 book review
Self and sovereignty: Individual and community in South Asian Islam since 1850
[Review of Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, by A. Jalal]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 39(4), 458–460.
2002 book review
The partitions of memory: The afterlife of the division of India
[Review of The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India, by S. Kaul]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 39(1), 115–117.
2001 book review
Gender, slavery and law in colonial India
[Review of Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India, by I. Chatterjee]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 38(2), 214–216.

2001 book review
Jinnah, Parkistan and Islamic identity: The search for Saladin
[Review of Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, by A. S. Ahmed]. Journal of Asian Studies, 60(1), 247–249.
2001 book review
The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empires, 1415-1980
[Review of The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980, by D. B. Abernethy]. International History Review, 23(4), 889–891.

2000 book
Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking religious identities in Islamicate South Asia
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
2000 book review
Irrigation, agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947
[Review of Irrigation, Agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947, by M. M. Islam]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 37(4), 486–488.

1999 book review
The sacred and the secular: Bengal Muslim discourses, 1871-1977.
[Review of he Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871-1977, by T. M. Murshid]. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 104(1), 167–167.
1998 journal article
A magnificent gift: Muslim nationalism and the election process in colonial Punjab
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40(3), 415–436.
1998 article
Partition, Pakistan, and south Asian history: In search of a narrative
Gilmartin, D. (1998, November). JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 57, pp. 1068–1095.

1998 book review
Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought
[Review of Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, by D. Brown]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 35(2), 211–212.
1997 book review
Devotional Islam and politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his movement, 1870-1920.
[Review of Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870–1920, by U. Sanyal]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 56(4), 1142–1143.
1994 journal article
Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin
The Journal of Asian Studies, 53(4), 1127–1149.
1991 journal article
Democracy, nationalism and the public: A speculation on colonial Muslim politics
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 14(1), 123–140.
1991 chapter book
‘Divine Displeasure’ and Muslim Elections: The Shaping of Community in Twentieth-Century Punjab
1988 book
Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan
Berkeley: University of California Press.
1984 chapter
9. Shrines, Succession, and Sources of Moral Authority
1979 journal article
Religious Leadership and the Pakistan Movement in the Punjab
Modern Asian Studies, 13(3), 485–517.
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